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EARLY SETTLERS 



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NANTUCKET 



THEIR ASSOCIATES AND 
DESCENDANTS 



COMPILED BY 
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PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 
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Copyright, 1896, 

BY 

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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Deeds of Purchase and Settlement of the Island — Dis- 
covery — Names of Purchasers — Ten Proprietors added — 
Houses built — Town named 7 

Thomas Macy — Arrival in America — His Kecord in Salisbury, 
Massachusetts — Violation of Laws in Religious Matters — 
Admonition — Apology — Departure for Nantucket .... 17 

Edward Starbuck — Settlement at Dover, New Hampshire — 
Possessions in Dover — Profession of Anabaptism — Joins 
Thomas Macy on his Voyage to Nantucket — Name of 
Starbuck associated with his Former Possessions until 1716 21 

Tristram Coffin — Birth — Marriage — Arrival in America — 
Early Ancestry — CoflSn Home in Normandy and England — 
Life and Services at Nantucket — Commission as Chief 
Magistrate of Colony — Sketch of his Children 24 

Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin — His Early Life in Boston — 
Interest in Nantucket — Services for the King — Marriage 
and Death in England 33 

Christopher Hussey — Marriage — Arrival in Boston — Settle- 
ment at Hampton, New Hampshire — Public Services — 
Stephen Hussey 37 

Stephen Greenleaf, with some Account of his Father, 
Edmund Greenleaf — Origin of the Family — Arrival in 
America of Edmund Greenleaf and Family — Public Ser- 
vice — Extract from Will — Stephen Greenleaf as Pro- 
prietor of Nantucket — Military Life — Death 40 

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PAGE 



John Greenlkaf WnixTiER-Detail of Descent from Tris- 
tram Coffin and Stephen Greenleaf 

Other Pboprietors-Eobert PiKE-Settlement at Salisbury 
-Kelations with Nantucket-Public Life-TnoMAS Cole- 
man as Proprietor-THOMAS AND Egbert Barnard 
-Proprietors of Nantucket-Thomas Barnard's Return 
to Ensland-Robert Barnard's Family-Ezra Cornell- 
EicHARD SwAiN-Connection of his Family with Weare | 

Family, of Hampton, New Hampshire-JoHN Swain as ^^ | 

Proprietor— His House | 

Peter FoLGER-Origin of Folger Family-Peter Folger's 
Arrival in America-Life and Missionary Work at 
Martha's Vineyard-Cotton Mather's Description of Him- 
Settlementat Nantucket-His Family-Benjamin Franklin 
and his Descendants in Philadelphia- Walter Folger- 
Maria Mitchell- Jacob Barker-Thomas Prence-Wilham ^ 
Collier-William Allen Butler-Charles James Folger . . 4/ 

Thomas, John, and Eichard GARDiNER-Settlement in 
America-Life at Cape Ann and Salem-Eemoval of 
Eichard Gardner to Nantucket-Eichard as Magistrate- 
JoHN Gardner as Magistrate on Nantucket, Judge ot 
Probate, and Captain of " Ffoot Company" 

Samuel SnATTUCK-Association of Name with Nantucket- 
Persecution-BanishmentfromAmerica-SamuelShattucks 

Eeturn to America with the King's Mandate 

THOMAS Mayhew and Thomas Mayhew, jK.-Thomas May- 
hew as Proprietor of Nantucket-His Life at Marthas 
Vineyard-Missionary Work of Thomas Mayhew, Jr., 
among Indians-Children and Descendants of Thomas ^^ 
Mayhew, Jr 

EXTRACTS EROM JOURNALS OF JOHN ElCHARDSON AND ThOMAS | 

Story, giying some Account or the Rise of Friends on i 

NANTUCKET-Establishment of Friends' Meeting-Present 
Condition of the Society on the Island 



PAGE 

An Impartial Judgment . 80 



Detail of Descent from Proprietors and Settlers : 

Mitchell Family 83 

Kussell Family 85 

Barker Family 90 

Swain Family , . . 93 

Family of Lucretia Mott 94 

Families of Thomas Earle and John Milton Earle .... 98 

Swift Family 100 

Eotch Family 104 

Bunker Family 107 

Wing and Hathaway Connection with Nantucket .... 110 

Coggeshall Connection with Nantucket 112 

Buffum Connection with Nantucket 114 

Stanton Connection with Nantucket 116 

Appendix 119 



EARLY SETTLERS OF NANTUCKET. 



DEEDS OF PURCHASE AND SETTLEMENT OF THE 
ISLAND. 

Belknap, in his Biography of Biron,* says, "An 
Icelander of the name Herioff and his son Biron * made 
a voyage every year to different countries for the 
sake of traffic. 

"About the beginning of the eleventh century (1001) 
their ships were separated by a storm. When Biron * 
arrived in Norway he heard that his father was gone 
to Greenland, and he resolved to follow him ; but 
another storm drove him to the southwest, where he 
discovered a flat country, free from rocks, but covered 
with thick woods, and an island near the coast." 

When on his return to Greenland his discoveries 
became known. Lief, the son of Eric, Earl of Norway, 
equipped a vessel, and " taking Biron * for his pilot 
sailed (1002) in search of the new country." 

Belknap says, " Biarne's * description of the coast is 
very accurate and in the island situate to the eastward 
(between which and the promontory that stretches to 
the eastward and northward Lief sailed) we recognize 
Nantucket. The Ancient Northmen found there many 

* Bjorne. 



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shallows." There is little doubt that Nantucket was 
visited by Englishmen very early in the seventeenth 
century (1602). 

In the biography of Gosnold, Belknap says, " The 
shoal water and breach which he calls Tucker's Terror 
corresponds with the shoal and breakers called Pol- 
lock's Rip. ... To avoid this danger it being late 
in the day he stood so far out to sea as to overshoot 
the eastern entrance of what is now called the Vine- 
yard Sound. 

" The land which he made in the night was a white 
cliff on the eastern coast of Nantucket now called 
Sankoty Head. 

" The breach which lay off Gilbert's Point I take to 
be the Bass Rip and the Pollock Rip with the cross 
ripplings which extend from the southeast extremity 
of that island. 

" Over these ripplings there is a depth of water from 
four to seven fathoms, according to a late map of Nan- 
tucket, published by Peleg Coffin, Esq., and others," * 

It is difficult to imagine any native of Nantucket 
who would not be interested in facts relating to its 
history, whether geographical, historical, geological, 
or genealogical; but the practical interest for us of 
the present day dates from 1659, when it was finally 
settled by sturdy men, ancestors to so many in this 
broad land that a brief detail of the public services of 
those pioneers cannot fail to be of value to their de- 
scendants. 

Tradition assigns two causes for the sudden departure 



* American Biography. By Jeremj^ Belknap, D.D. With Ad- 
ditions and Notes by F. M. Hubbard. Published by Harper & 
Brothers in 1843. 



of Thomas Macy and Edward Starbuck from Salis- 
bury, Massachusetts. 

Many of their descendants have believed that perse- 
cution on account of the harboring of Quakers led 
those early settlers to leave an alread}^ established 
home, to seek another upon a desolate, bleak island, 
where skulking Indians, added to its isolated position, 
made a most inhospitable landing-place. 

On the other hand, most historians attribute the 
journey of Thomas Macy and Edward Starbuck in 
1659 to a business negotiation pending between them 
and Thomas Mayhew in regard to the purchase of the 
island of I^antucket. 

Benjamin Franklin Folger, one of the well-known 
genealogists of Nantucket, has stated that early in 
1659 Tristram Coffin went on a voyage of investiga- 
tion, first to Martha's Vineyard, where he secured the 
services of Peter Folger as interpreter, thence to Nan- 
tucket, " his object being to ascertain the temper and 
disposition of the Indians and the capabilities of the 
island that he might report to the citizens of Salisbury 
what inducements for emigration thither were offered." 

Thomas Mayhew, some years before, had received a 
grant of the islands off the southeast coast of Massa- 
chusetts from William, Earl of Sterling, and Sir Fer- 
nando or Ferdinand Gorges, as is shown by the records 

Note. — In 1641 Nantucket appears to have been under the control 
of William, Earl of Sterling, and Sir Fernando or Ferdinand Gorges, 
as "during this year the Elizabeth Islands, Caparrock or Martha's 
Vineyard, Nanticon or Nantucket and Tuckanuck or Tiickanuckett" 
were "graunted unto Thomas Mayhew at Watertowne, Merchant, 
and to Thomas Mayhew his sonne." 

The consideration named in the deed of Nantucket was "that 
Thomas Maj'hew and Thomas Mayhew his sonne or either of them 
or their Assignes doe render and pay yearly unto the Hon'''^ the Lord 



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in the secretary's office at Albany, New York, Nan- 
tucket having belonged to New York until about 1690. 

In 1659 the island or the patent of it was still in the 
possession of the Mayhews. 

F. B. Hough's book says, " In 1659 the elder May- 
hew admitted nine others to a joint partnership in the 
Island of Nantucket, reserving a small part to himself, 
and in February following it was agreed that each 
Partner might admit another to an equal share in 
Power and Interest, not being justly excepted to by 
the Rest." 

"We find on record that in July of 1659 a deed was 
given by Thomas Mayhew, confirming the sale of the 
island of Nantucket to nine purchasers, — viz, : 

Tristram Coffin. 

Richard Swain, or Swayne. 

Peter Coffin. 

Stephen Greenleaf. 

William Pike. 

Thomas Macy. 

Thomas Barnard. 

Christopher Hussey. 

John Swain, or Swayne. 

Copy of Deed of Nantucket to Nine Purchasers {dated 
July 2, 1659). 
" Recorded for Mr Coffin and Mr Macy afores*^ ye 
Day and Year afores*^. 

Sterling, his Heyres and Assignes, such an acknowledgement as shall 
be thought fitt by John Winthrop Esq'' the Elder or any two Magis- 
trates in the Massachusetts Bay, being Chosen for that End and Pur- 
pose by the Hon'"''^ the Lord Sterling or his Deputy and by the said 
Thomas Mayhew and Thomas Mayhew his Sonne, or their Assignes." 
This deed was dated October 13, 1G41. 



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" Be it known unto all Men by these Presents that I, 
Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, Merchant, 
doe hereby acknowledge that I have sould unto Tris- 
tram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Rich- 
ard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen 
Greenleafe, John Swayne and William Pike that Right 
and Interest I have in ye Land of Nantuckett by Patent; 
y w'''' Right I bought of James Fforrett, Gent, and 
Steward to y^ Lord Sterling and of Richard Vines, 
sometimes of Sacho, Gent., Stew^ard-Gen'^' unto Sir 
Georges Knight as by Conveyances under their Hands 
and Scales doe appeare, tFor them y® aforesaid to Injoy, 
and their Heyres and Assignes forever w^^ all the 
Privilesres thereunto belono-ins^, for in consideration of 
y* Sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay unto whom- 
soever I y* said Thomas Mayhew, mine Heyres or As- 
signes shall appoint. 

" And also two Beaver Hatts one for myself and one 
for my wife. 

" And further this is to declare that I the said 
Thomas Mayhew have received to myself that Neck 
upon i^antucket called Masquetuck or that Neck of 
Land called Nashayte the Neck (but one) northerly of 
Masquetuck, y* aforesaid Sayle in anywise notwith- 
standing. And further, I y' said Thomas Mayhew am 
to beare my Part of the Charge of y* said Purchase 
above named, and to hold one twentieth Part of all 
Lands purchased already, or shall be hereafter pur- 
chased, upon y^ said Island by y® afores** Purchas" or 
Heyres and Assignes forever. 

" Briefly : It is thus : That I really sold all my Patent 
to y* aforesaid nine Men and they are to pay mee or 
whomsoever I shall appoint them, y^ sume of Thirty 
Pounds in good Marchantable Pa}- in y'' Massachu- 



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setts, under w"*" Governm* they now Inhabit, and 2 
Beaver Hatts, and I am to beare a 20'''' Part of y" 
Charge of y* Purchase, and to have a 20*"* Part of all 
Lands and Priviledges ; and to have w'^'' of ye Necks 
afors"* that I will myselfe, paying for it ; only y* Pur- 
chasers are to pay what y® Sachem is to have for Mas- 
quetuck, although I have y" other ]*Teck. 

" And in witness hereof I have hereunto sett my 
Hand and Seale this second Day of July sixteen hun- 
dred and fifty-nine — (1659). 

"Per me 

" Tho. Mayhew. 
"Witness John Smith 

"Edward Searle." 

By this deed it will be observed that a share of the 
island was retained by Thomas Mayhew, and in this 
way he became one of the proprietors who are said in 
all histories of the place to have founded the settle- 
ment. 

The following deed proves that notwithstanding the 
purchase of the island from Thomas Mayhew, a busi- 
ness negotiation was made with the Indians also, and 
that the land was fairly bought from them : 

DEED OF WANACKMANACK. 

" This witnesseth that I, Wanackmanack, Chief 
Sachem of Nantucket hath sold unto Mr. Tristram 
Coffin and Thomas Macy their heirs and assigns that 
whole neck of land called by the Indians Pacummoh- 
quah,* being at the East end of Nantucket, for and in 
consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in Eng- 

* Pocomo. 



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lish goods, or otherwise to my content by the same 
Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall 
be demanded. 

" Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June 1662. 

Wanackmamak. 

" Witness hereto, Peter Folger and Wawinnesit 
whose English name is Amos." 

" Copy of Indian deed of Nantuckd, Recorded for 3Ir. 

Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy, y* 29"" of 

June 1671 aforesaid. 

" These P''sents Wittness y' I Wanackmamack Head 
Sachem of y" Island of Nantuckett, have Bargained 
and sold, and doe by these Presents Bargaine and Sell 
unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Rich*^ Swayne, 
Thomas Bernard, John Swain, Mr Thomas May hew, 
Edward Starbuck, Peter Coffin, James Coffin, Stephen 
Greenleafe, Tristram Coffin Jun'", Thomas Coleman, 
Robert Bernard, Christopher Hussey, Robert Pyke, 
John Smyth, and John Bishop these Islands of !N'an- 
tucket, namely, all y" west end of y* afores** Island 
unto y" Pond comonly called Waquittaquay and from 
y" Head of that Pond to y' ^N'orth side of y" Island 
Manaraoy; Bounded by a Path from ye Head of ye 
Pond aforesaid to Maiiamoy; as also a ISTeck at y' 
East End of y' Island called Poquomock,* w"" the 
Property thereof, and all ye Royal tyes, Priviledges and 
Immunityes thereto belonging, or whatsoever Right I 
y' afores^ Wanackmak have, or have had in ye same : 
That is, all y* Lands afore menconed and likewise ye 
Winter sseed of y' whole island from y' End of an In- 
dyan Harvest untill Planting Time, or y* first of May, 

* Pooomo. 



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from yeare to yeare forever, as likewise Liberty to make 
use of "Wood and Timber on all Parts of y* Island ; 
and likewise Halfe of y* Meadows and Marshes on all 
Parts of y* Island w^'out or beside y* afores*^ tracts of 
Land Purchased; And likewise y^ use of y* other 
Halfe of y^ Meadows and Marshes, as long as y^ afore- 
said English their Heyres or Assignes live on ye 
Island ; And likewise I the aforesaid Wanackmamack 
doe sell unto y® English afore menconed y* propriety 
of y* rest of y* Island belonging unto raee, for and in 
consideracon of tforty Pounds already received by mee 
or other by my Consent or Ord. 

" To Have and to hold, ye afores'^ Tracts of Land, 
^th ye p'priety, Royaltyies, Immunityes, Priviledges, 
and all Appertenances thereunto belonging to them y* 
afores^ Purchas" their Heyres and Assignes forever. 

" In witness Whereof I the afores'* "Wanackmamack 
have hereunto sett my Hand and Scale y^ Daye and 
Yeare above written. 

" The Sign of Wanack-Mamack. 

" Signed, Sealed and Delivered 
in y® p'sence of 

" Peter Foulger, 

" Eleazer Foulger, 

"Dorcas Starbuck." * 

RECEIPT OF AVANACKMAMACK. 

[Nantucket Records, Old Book, Page 27.) 
" Received of Tristram CofSn of N"antuckett, the 
just sume of five poun, which is part of the seven 

* Dorcas Starbuck was a daughter of Edward Starbuck. Eleazer 
Foulger was a son of Peter Foulger. 

Note. — The official records of these deeds are in the office of the Sec- 
retary of State, Albany, New York. 



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poun that was unpaid of the Twenty poun Purchase 
of the Land that was purchased of Wanackmamack 
and Neckanoose, that is to say from Monomoy to 
Waquettaquage pond, Nanahumack Neck and all from 
Wesco westward to the west end of l^antucket, I say 
Received by Me Wanackmamack of Tristram Coffin, 
five pounds Starling the 18*^ 11 M 1671 

" The Mark X of Wanackmamack. 
" Witness hereunto 

" Richard Gardner. '■ 

" Elezer Folger." 

The following Associates were chosen by the first 
Proprietors : 

Tristram Coffin, Jr. John Smith. 

Robert Pike. Robert Barnard. 

Thomas Coleman. Edward Starbuck. 

Nathaniel Starbuck. Thomas Look. 

James Coffin. Thomas Mayhew, Jr. ^ 

They purchased or were given a half-interest in the 
original apportionments, making at a very early date 
twenty landed proprietors. 

Among these were men of varied experience and 
marked executive ability, evinced by their embracing 
every opportunity for the advancement of the settle- 
ment, and soon an interesting society was established 
upon the island. 

The first houses were built at the northwest, not far 
from a small harbor now called Maddequet Harbor. 

Later the large harbor on the north side of the 
island oflfered decided advantages, and the town was 
finally located there and named Sherburne, in com- 



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pliance with written orders of Governor Lovelace, of 
^ew York, recorded in Albany in the Secretary's office 
in Book of Deeds III. p. 85. Many of the houses 
were moved from their original sites to the new town. 

l^umbers at first were so small that intermarriages 
among these fiimilies were very common, and it is not 
infrequent for a descendant to find the same settler in 
his family tree several times. 

The population increased steadily until about 1849, 
when the California gold fever led many to seek wealth 
on the Pacific Coast, and later, the decline of the whale 
fisheries compelled the younger men to find means of 
support elsewhere, and in comparatively few years the 
population decreased from nearly ten thousand to less 
than five thousand. 



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THOMAS MACY. 

Near the town of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England, 
in the Parish of Chilmark, resided (" prior to his em- 
barkation for America, probably in 1635") Thomas 
Macy. 

The name of the vessel upon which he came to 
America is not recorded, but he arrived not later than 
1639. 

Thomas Macy was among the original settlers of 
Sahsbury, Massachusetts, and is in " The first or Origi- 
nal list of ye townsmen of Salisbury in y^ booke of 
Records." 

We find also recorded that he was "a merchant, 
planter,* one of the select-men of the town, a juryman, 
and, withal a preacher." 

The Massachusetts laws passed in 1656 and 1657 
were a great drawback to freedom of worship. 

Several persons were prosecuted for violating the 
law of 1657 which prohibited entertaining Quakers. 
Among these was Thomas Macy, who was fined thirty 
shillings, notwithstanding his " explanation and apol- 
ogy," and was ordered to be admonished by the 
governor. 

It is a matter of record that he sheltered Edward 
Wharton, William Robinson, merchant of London, 
and Marmaduke Stephenson, of Yorkshire, England. 
The two last named were hanged in Boston the 27th of 
October, 1659. 

The following letter from General Court files is a 
copy of a reply to a summons to appear at court to 
answer for his violation of the law in this particular : 



* A farmer. 
2 



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" This is to entreat the honored Court not to be 
offended because of my non-appearance. It is not 
from any slighting the authority of this honored Court, 
nor from feare to answer the case, but I have bin for 
some weeks past very ill, and am so at present, and not- 
withstanding my illness, yet I desirous to appear, have 
done my utmost endeavour to hire a horse but cannot 
procure one at present. 

" I being at present destitute have endeavoured to 
purchase, but at present cannot attaine it, but shall 
relate the truth of the case as my answer should be to 
y^ honored Court, and more cannot be proved, nor so 
much. 

" On a rainy morning there came to my house Edward 
"Wharton and three men more, the said Wharton spoke 
to me saying that they were travelling eastward and 
desired me to direct them in the way to Hampton, and 
asked me how far it was to Casco Bay. 

"I never saw any of y® men afore except Wharton 
neither did I require their names, or who they were, 
but by their carriage I thought they might be Quakers 
and told them so, and therefore desired them to passe 
on their way, saying to them I might possibly give 
offence in entertaining them, and as soone as the vio- 
lence of the rain ceased (for it rained very hard) they 
went away and I never saw^ them since. 

" The time that they stayed in the house was about 
three quarters of an hour, but I can safely affirm that 
it was not an houre. 

" They spake not many words in the time, neither was 
I at leisure to talke with them, for I came home wet to 
y' skin, immediately afore they came to the house and 
I found my wife sick in bed. If this satisfie not the 
honored Court I shall subject to their sentence. 



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" I have not willingly offended. I am ready to serve 
and obey you in the Lord. 

" Thos. Macy." 

He was a Baptist, and on the Sabbath frequently 
exhorted the people ; this, too, was in violation of the 
Massachusetts law which prohibited all but the regu- 
larly ordained from such service. 

Tradition says that immediately after his sentence 
Thomas Macy removed to IS'antucket. 

In the " Macy Genealogy" it is related that " in 1659 
he embarked at Salisbury in a small boat with his wife 
and children and such household goods as he could 
conveniently carry, and in company with Isaac Cole- 
man and Edward Starbuck set sail for Nantucket." * 

The same papers say, " because he could not injustice 
to the dictates of his own conscious longer submit to the 
tyranny of the clergy and those in authority." 

It appears from the above detail that Thomas Macy 
satisfied the requirements of the law and paid his fine, 
but undoubtedly he believed he could lead a more 
peaceful and independent life at Nantucket, and may 
have preferred voluntary exile to possible banishment. 

Thomas Macy must have returned to Salisbury, as he 
is recorded as living there in 1664. 

Before his removal to Nantucket he was commis- 
sioner, and representative to the General Court from 
Salisbury, and the citizens of that town bore testimony 
of their sympathy with him by electing his friend and 
defender Robert Pike as his successor. 

That he again, at a later date, removed to Nantucket 
is evident from old records, Register's office, in which 

* James Coffin, son of Tristram, Sr., is said to, have accompanied 
the three named. 



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it will be found that October 1, 1675, be was commis- 
sioned chief magistrate of the town. 

He was the first recorder appointed on the island, 
and a portion at least of the first Book of Records in 
the ofiice at I^antucket was written by him. 

He died April 19, 1682, aged seventy-four. His 
wife, Sarah (Hopcot) Macy, who came with him from 
Chilmark, survived him for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
tur3\ 

John Macy, son of Thomas and Sarah Macy, born 
at Salisbury July 14, 1655, married Deborah Gardner, 
daughter of Richard and Sarah (Shattuck) Gardner, 
and died at Nantucket, October 14, 1691, at the early 
age of thirty-six ; through him alone the name has 
descended to posterity. 

Note. — In 1637-38, George Macy appears to have been prominent 
in the settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts. Savage (vol. iii. p. 142) 
says he was in 1643 lieutenant in King Philip's War, and represent- 
ative in 1672 and for six years ; also among the inhabitants of Taun- 
ton in 1668 there was a Samuel Macy, who is supposed to have been 
a son of George and to have died single prior to the death of his 
father; of this Taunton family there is no further record, nor of 
any others of the name excepting Thomas and his descendants. 

The only reasons for supposing George Macy was of the same 
family as Thomas are the name and the date of his emigration to 
America. 

The name Macy signifies mace or staflP. 



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EDWARD STARBUCK. 

Edward Starbuck was born in 1604, and came from 
Derbyshire, England, to Dover, New Hampshire, with 
his wife, Katharine (Reynolds), of Wales, about 1635. 

" He is first mentioned as receiving 1643 a grant of 
forty acres of land on each side of the Fresh River at 
Catchechoe . . . and also one platt of Marsh above 
Cutchechoe great Marsh, that the brook that runs out 
of the river runs through, first discovered by Richard 
Walderne, Edward Colcord, Edward Starbuck, and 
William Furber. 

"He had other grants at different times, one of 
Marsh in Great Bay in 1643, one of the Mill privilege 
at Cutchechoe 2nd Falls (with Thomas Wiggins) and 
one of timber to ' accommodate' in 1650 and various 
others. 

" Indeed Edward owned considerable land and was 
evidently a man of substance as to possessions as 
tradition says he was in body. 

" He was a representative in 1643 and 1646, was an 
elder in the church and enjoyed various other tokens 
of respect given him by his fellow citizens. 

" In fact he might have lived comfortably at Dover 
and died in the midst of his family, respected and 
contented but that he embraced Baptist sentiments." * 

In Provincial " Papers of New Hampshire Historical 
Society," we find the following : 

" Oct. 18, 1648. — The Court being informed of great 
misdemeanor Committed by Edward Starbuck of Dover 
with profession of Anabatism for which he is to be pro- 
ceeded against at the next Court of Assistants if evi- 

* N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. viii. p. 68. 



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dence can be prepared by tbat time & it being very 
farre for witnesses to travill to Boston at that season 
of the year, It is therefore ordered by this Court that 
the Secretary shall give Commission to Capt. Thomas 
Wiggan & Mr Edw. Smyth to send for such persons 
as they shall have notice of which are able to testify 
in the sd. cause & to take their testimony uppon oath 
& certifie the same to the secretary so soon as may be, 
that further proceedings may be therein, if the cause 
shall so require" 

It is not to be wondered at that Edward Starbuck 
was quite ready to leave Dover under existing condi- 
tions. He was fifty -five years of age when he joined 
Thomas Macy in his voyage from Salisbury to Nan- 
tucket; he spent the winter there and in the spring 
returned to Dover for his family, who all accompanied 
him to the island excepting his daughters Sarah (Austin) 
and Abigail (Coffin), who had married and settled in 
Dover. " Dover lost a good citizen" and Nantucket 
gained a much respected one ; " he was a leading man 
on the Island and at one time a Magistrate ;" * he is 
described as " courageous and persevering." 

In " Landmarks in Ancient Dover" mention is made 
of Starbuck's Brook in 1701 as a boundary of property 
which Peter Coffin (son-in-law of Edward Starbuck) 
conveyed to John Ham. Starbuck's Marsh was granted 
to Elder Starbuck August 30, 1643, and Starbuck's 
Point and Marsh, now called Fabyan's Point, was 
granted to Edward Starbuck in 1643, and is again 
mentioned in 1662, 1702, and 1716 in conveyance of 
property, since which time the usual desire to change 



* N. E. Hist, and Gen. Keg., vol. viii. p. 68. 



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ancient names has destroyed what might be valuable 
historical landmarks. 

One son only lived to perpetuate the name,— Na- 
thaniel, who married Mary (daughter of Tristram 
Coffin) ; he is the ancestor of all American Starbucks. 

Edward Starbuck died in 1690. 



iV^o^e.-The name Starbuck is from the Norse, and signifies greater 
grand. 



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TRISTRAM COFFIN. 

So much information concerning Tristram Coffin has 
been developed and published in connection with the 
Coffin Reunion at Nantucket in 1881, that a very brief 
sketch is sufficient here. 

He was so important in the early history of the set- 
tlement that at the risk of repeating much that has 
already been written, some notice of him and his in- 
teresting family will not be out of place. 

Tristram Coffin, the founder of the family line of 
Coffins in America signed his name " Coffyn." 

He was born in Brixton, Devonshire, England, in 
1605. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert 
Stevens, of Brixton. 

In 1642 he came to America with his family and his 
widowed mother Joan, and resided first at Newbury, 
later at Haverhill and Salisbury, until 1660, when he 
settled at Nantucket. 

The family to which he belonged is the oldest of the 
Nantucket families. The first of the name of whom 
there is any record is Sir Richard Coffin, who removed 
from Normandy to England in 1066 ; he entered the 

Note. — Coffin is a word of Hebrew origin signifying a small basket. 
In the "Century Dictionary" may be found various meanings for 
the word, but in most cases it represents a receptacle of some kind. 

In Wyclif's translation of the Bible, Mark vi. 43, may be found: 

"And thei token the relifs of broken metis twelve coffinsFul and 
of the fisches." 

Coffin also appears to have been at one time synonymous with 
coffer; there are occasional records where the cofferer was a treasurer, 
an official servant in charge of a receptacle in which valuables and 
money were placed for transportation from place to place. 

In Bowditch's "Suffolk Surnames" the name Tristram is spoken 
of as havine: been a surname. 



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English army, had lands granted to him, and was 
knighted by the king. 

From Prince's " Worthies of Devonshire" we learn 
that the ancient family of the name settled at Port- 
ledge, by the sea-side, in the Parish of Alwington, five 
miles from Biddeford, " and flourished there from the 
time of King Henry the First unto the age of King 
Edward the Second." 

For two hundred years each successive heir of this 
family bore the name of Richard. 

Within a short distance of Fallaise, a town of Nor- 
mandy, stands the old chateau of Cortiton, once the 
home of the Norman Coffins. 

The last Miss Cofiin married a Le Clerc late in the 
eighteenth century, since which time the Le Clerc 
family has occupied the Norman estates. When last 
visited, the chateau, though ancient, was in good 
repair. 

Members of the family are mentioned in history 
often associated with royalty from 1066 to the latter 
part of the sixteenth century, since which time the 
lines of descent are complete. 

Tristram lived at Northam,* near Capaum Pond, 
Nantucket, and died tenth month 2d, 1681, aged sev- 
enty-six years. 

He was the first chief magistrate of Nantucket. The 
following is a copy of his commission, taken from Mr. 
F. B. Hough's book, compiled from official records at 
Albany. 

* Northam was the first name of Dover, New Hampshire. 



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" Commiffion Granted to Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senr., to 
be Chiefe Magiftrate in and over the If lands of Nan- 
tuekett and Tuckanuckett.'' — [Deeds TIL, 62, Secretary's 
Office, Albany, New York. 

"Francis Lovelace, Esq., &c : Whereas upon Ad- 
drefs made unto mee by Mr. Triftram Coffin and Mr. 
Thomas Macy on y^ behalfe of themfelves and y* reft 
of y® Inhabitants of jSTantuckett Ifland concerning y® 
Manno' and Method of Governmn* to be ufed among'" 
themfelves, and having by y* Advice of my Councell 
pitcht upon a way for them ; That is to fay That they 
be Governed by a Person as Chiefe Magiftrate, and two 
Affiftants, y* former to be nominated by myfelfe, y' 
other to bee chofen and confirmed by y® Inhabitants as 
in y* Inftructions fent unto them is more particularly 
Sett forth. And having conceived a good Opinion of 
y* ffitnefs and capacity of Mr. Triftram Coffin to be y® 
p'sent Chiefe Magiftrate to manage Affiiyres w'*' y® 
Ayd and good Advice of y^ Affiftants in y® Islands of 
Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett, I have thought fitt to 
ITominate, Constitute, and Appoint and by these 
P'"fents doe hereby jSTominate Constitute and Appoint 
Mr. Triftram Coffin to be Chiefe Magiftrate of y" faid 
If lands of JSTantuckett and Tuckanuckett. In y^ Man- 
agem* of w"'' faid Employm*, hee is to ufe his beft Skill 
and Endeavour to p'^ferve his Ma*'*^ Peace, and to keep 
y^ Inhabitants in good Ord^ And all Persons are 
. hereby required to give y^ faid Mr. Triftram Coffin fuch 
Refpect and Obedience as belongs to a Person invefted 
by commiffion from Authority of his Royall Highnefs 
in y* Place and Employ m* of a Chief Magistrate in y^ 
Iflands aforefaid. And hee is duely to obferve the 
Orders and Inftructions w"''' are already given forth for 



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y® well governing of y^ Place, or fucli others as from 
Time to Time f hall hereafter bee given by mee : And 
for whatfoever y^ faid Mr. Triftrara Coffin f hall lawfully 
Act or Doe in Profecution of y® Premifes, This is my 
Commiffion w"'' is to bee of ffbrce untill y* 13"' day of 
October, which shall bee in ye Yeare of our Lord 1672, 
when a new magiftrate is to enter into the Employm' 
f hall bee his sufficient Warrant and Difcharge. 

" Given under my Hand and Seal at ffi3rte James in 
New Yorke, this 29*'' day of June in y* 22** Yeare of 
his Ma*'*' Eeigne, Annoq. Dni. 1671. 

" Fran : Lovelace." 

The following is a list of children of Tristram 
Coffin : 

Hon. Peter Coffin was born in England in 1631 ; 
he married Abigail Starbuck, daughter of Edward 
and Katharine Starbuck, of Dover, New Hampshire. 
He was one of the original purchasers of Nantucket, 
but resided there for a short time only. He was made 
a freeman in 1666 at Dover. 

Li 1675 he was a lieutenant on service in King 
Philip's War. In 1672-73 and again in 1679 he was 
a representative in the legislative branch. In 1690 he 
removed to Exeter, New Hampshire. From 1692 to 
1714 he was at different times associate justice and 
chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
shire, and a member of the Governor's Council. He 
died at Exeter, March 21, 1715. 

Tristram Coffin, Jr., was born in England in 
1632. He married in Newbury, Massachusetts, March 
2, 1652, Judith Somerby, widow of Henry Somerby 
and daughter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf. He 



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was made freeman April 29, 1668, and died in New- 
bury, Febuary 4, 1704, aged seventy-two. He was a 
merchant tailor and tilled many positions of trust. He 
lived in the Coffin mansion in xNfewbury, which still 
continues in the family ; whether he or his wife's 
former husband built it is uncertain. 

It is said that Tristram Coffin, Sr., lived in this old 
mansion before he removed to Xantucket. 

Elizabeth Coffin was born in England about 
1634-35 ; and married in Newbury, November 13, 
1651, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, son of Edmund 
Greeiileaf ; she died at Newbury, November 19, 1678. 

James Coffin was born in England, August 12, 
1640. He married, December 3, 1663, Mary, daughter 
of .John and Abigail Severance, of Salisbury, Massa- 
chusetts, and died at Nantucket, July 28, 1720, aged 
eighty years. He was one of the associate proprietors, 
and tilled several important offices at Nantucket, 
among them judge of Probate Court, and is said to 
have been the first judge of probate on the island, 
appointed in 1680.* 

John and Deborah died in infancy. 

Mary Coffin, seventh child of Tristram Coffin, Sr., 
was born in Haverhill, February 20, 1645. She was 
married in 1662, at the age of seventeen, to Nathaniel, 
son of Edward and Katharine (Reynolds) Starbuck. 

The first book of births, marriages, and deaths for 
the town of Sherburne (page 11) says " Mary Starbuck 

* Massachusetts Civil List, pp. 112-114. 



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departed this LifFe y" 13 day of y« 9s 1717 in y' 74 
year of her age and was decently buried in Friends 
burying ground." Her husband, !N"athaniel Starbuck, 
Sr., died in 1719. 

She was a remarkable woman, anticipating by two 
centuries the advanced views of women of to-day. 
She took an active part in town debates, usually open- 
ing her remarks with " My husband and I, having 
considered the subject, think, etc." 

In 1701, at the age of fifty-six, she became interested 
in the religious faith of the Friends, and held meetings 
at her house. She was a minister in the Society, as 
were also several of her children, her grandsons Elihu 
and l^athaniel Coleman, and her grand-daughter Pris- 
cilla Bunker. 

Elihu Coleman published one of the earliest protests 
against slavery in New England. 

Mary Starbuck was " as distinguished in her domestic 
economy as she was celebrated as a preacher." 

The following copy of a letter from Mary Starbuck 
to her grand-daughter Eliza Gorham, who had suifered 
loss by fire, gives evidence of her interest in domestic 
matters. 

"Nantucket 17th of 1st mo 1714. 

" Dear Child E. G. 

" These few lines may certify thee that thou art 
often in my remembrance, with thy dear husband and 
children, with breathings to the Lord for you, that 
you may find rest in all your visitations and trials; 
As also that there is a trunk filled with goods which is 
intended to be put on Eben Stewards vessel, in which 
are several small tokens from thy friends which thou 
may particularly see by the little invoices here enclosed, 
and by some other marks that are upon the things. 



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" Thy Aunt Dorcas in a new pair of osnaburg sheets, 
thy Aunt Dinah in a pair of blankets, Thy Grandfather 
intends to send thee a bbl. of mutton, but it is not all 
his own, for Cousin James Coffin sent hither 17 pieces. 
Cousin James said he intended to send thee two or 
three bushels of corn. 

" There is likewise sent from our women's meeting 
£7 which thy uncle Jethro said he would give an order 
for, for thee to take to Boston. 

" Sister James told me she intended to send thee two 
bushels of corn and some wool and likewise that Justice 
Worth said he would send thee some corn. 

" More meat and corn will be sent which will be in 
greater quantities, which thy uncle Jethro Starbuck 
will give thee an acct. of or to thy husband. 

" I should have been glad if he had come over with 
Steward, but I hope we shall see him this summer, if 
not both of you. 

" So with my kind love to thee and thy husband, 
children and to all our frds. committing you to the pro- 
tection of the Almighty who is the wise disposer of all 
things and remain tliy affectionate Grandmother 

" Mary Starbuck. 

" Thy Grandfather's love to you all and Uncle Bar- 
nabas's, Susanna is well and her love to you also." 

Nathaniel Starbuck was in his time considered 
wealthy, and was by no means a man of small ability, 
but his wife seems to have taken the lead in most 
matters. 

Lieutenant John Coffin was born at Haverhill, 
October 30, 1647; he married Deborah, daughter of 
Joseph and Sarah (Starbuck) Austin. After his father's 



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death he removed to Martha's Vineyard, and died there 
September 5, 1711. 

Authority for his commission as lieutenant of mihtia 
will be found Part First of Vol. XXXIV., and on page 
21 of the Kew York Colonial Manuscripts in the cus- 
tody of the Regents of the University in the State Li- 
brary at Albany, and recorded by the Secretary of the 
Province of New York among memoranda of several 
military commissions, directed by Governor Thomas 
Dongan to be issued, and reads thus : 

" Mr. John Coffin a Commission to be Lieu, of said 
Company at Nantucket June 5'^^ 1684 all the first 
forme." 

Stephen Coffin was born at Newbury, May 10, 1652. 
He married Mary, daughter of George and Jane (God- 
frey) Bunker, about 1668, and died at Nantucket 
November 14, 1734. 

He remained upon his father's estate, and to him 
was given the management of his father's business, on 
agreement " to be helpful to his parents in their old age." 

It is not surprising that the descendants of Tristram 
Coffin still bearing the name are so numerous when 
we find that of his nine children five out of the seven 
who married were sons ; that Peter had nine children, 
that Tristram, Jr., had ten children and left one hun- 
dred and seventy-seven descendants, that James had 
fourteen children, that Lieutenant John had eleven 
children, and that Stephen had ten. 

The two daughters, Mary Starbuck and Elizabeth 
Greenleaf, each had ten children, adding in two cen- 
turies many more descendants to the list, although not 
of the name. 



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The Nantucket Inquirer of July 22, 1826, says, 
"■ The House * in which Tristram Coffin resided is 
still standing, and has been the residence of seven 
generations of the same name. 

" The names of more than twelve thousand descend- 
ants of Tristram Coffin can be ascertained, some of 
whom are found in England, in all the British Do- 
minions and in every state in the Union." 

The above was written by Joshua Coffin,t Newbury- 
port, and is signed " Jam satis." 

* Probably at Newbury. 

f Joshua Coffin, antiquarian and historian, was descended from 
Joseph, son of Nathaniel, who was youngest son of Tristram CoflBn, 
Jr. 

Joseph married Margaret Morse, daughter of Benjamin Morse, of 
Newbury. 

" Joshua Coffin, Esq.," was born in the old Coffin mansion in New- 
bury, October 12, 1792, and died June 24, 18G4. He was one of the 
twelve persons who, together with "William Lloyd Garrison and 
others, formed the first anti-slavery society in New England. He 
■was for many years a teacher, and numbered among his pupils men 
■who attained high position in after years. 

Noie. — Savage says, " Twenty-six of Tristram's descendants gradu- 
ated in 1828 at New England colleges, fifteen at Harvard alone." 



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ADMIRAL SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BARONET. 

The following facts have been abridged from an 
account published in the Boston Herald within a few 
years. 

On the easterl}^ side of Harrison Avenue just above 
Kneeland Street, a trifle back from the Avenue (Boston), 
stands a gambrel roof wooden structure. This build- 
ing was moved from its original site, corner of Beach 
Street and Oxford Place, to its present location nearly 
half a century ago. It was the residence of Nathaniel 
Coffin, one of the foremost adherents of King George, 
who at one time held the responsible position of col- 
lector of his Majesty's customs for the port of Boston. 
The house must have been built as early as 1750, and 
it was, on May 16, 1759, the birthplace of Isaac Coffin, 
who afterwards rose to be an admiral in the British 
navy. In the same house was born his brother John, 
who became major-general in the British army. 

Sir Isaac retained an affection for the place of his 
birth, and coming from Nantucket stock he invested 
in 1827 the sum of £2500 in English funds for the es- 
tablishment of a school on that Island to be known as 
the " Coffin School." 

Drake, in his " Old Landmarks of Boston," says 
that of this fund " the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston 
were made trustees for the distribution of the annual 
interest among five of the most deserving boys and as 
many girls of that school." 

King George III., with whom Sir Isaac was a great 
favorite, gave him a grant of the Island of Magdalen 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and in after years it was 
proposed to create him Earl of Magdalen ; this propo- 



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sition fell through, and the alleged reason was, that in 
establishing the Coffin school in Nantucket he was 
creating sailors who in mature age might fight against 
the crown. 

At the present time the old house in Boston is used 
for manufacturing purposes. 

Sir Isaac Coffin was the fifth generation in descent 
from Tristram, Sr., his father being Nathaniel, who 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Barnes, of 
Boston. Nathaniel was the son of William, who was 
the son of Nathaniel, who was the son of James, who 
was the son of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 

The following extracts from an English biographical 
work on the life of Admiral Coffin are abridged from 
manuscript of the late Mr. George Howlaud Folger. 
This manuscript is now the property of the Historical 
Society of Nantucket. 

Sir Isaac entered the navy in 1773, under the pat- 
ronage of Admiral John Montague; he served as mid- 
shipman on board several ships, and in 1778 obtained 
a lieutenancy. In July, 1781, he was promoted to the 
rank of commander, and was in the " splendid battle" 
of April 12, 1782, which resulted in the capture of the 
celebrated Comte de Grasse. In 1795, as commis- 
sioner, he resided in Corsica, where he remained until 
the evacuation of the island in 1796; here he twice 
narrowly escaped assassination. After passing through 
various fortunes of war, he was in 1804 made rear- 
admiral. Soon after this he was raised to the dignity 
of baronet. In 1808 he was promoted to the position 
of vice-admiral, and in 1814 became full admiral, and 
in the general election in 1818 was chosen as repre- 
sentative to Parliament for the borough of Hchester. 

He married, in 1811, at the age of fifty-two, Eliza- 



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beth Brown Greenly, only daughter of T. Greenly, 
Esq. There were no children. 

He crossed the Atlantic not less than thirty-one 
times, a circumstance more remarkable in the early 
part of the century than at present. 

In the Kantucket Inquirer of September 2, 1826, 
may be found the following, copied from a Boston 
paper : 

"According to previous appointment, the annual 
visitation of the public schools was attended on 
Wednesday last by the parents and friends of the 
pupils, and by several strangers of distinction. Ad- 
miral Coffin gave as a sentiment, ' The City of 
Boston.' 

" He was replied to by one of the committee. 

" Our venerable and respected guest. Admiral Coffin, 
a native of our city and an alumnus of our ancient 
Latin school, who, though separated from us, in 
times of political dissension was generous and kind to 
his countrymen, who amidst the honors and plaudits 
of a princely court remembered with affection the land 
of his birth, and still bears testimony to the excellence 
of our civil and literary institutions. 

" May honorable fame ever attend him, and may his 
declining years repose in health and peace." 

September 9, 1826. — " Honorary degree of M.A. was 
conferred on Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin at the annual 
commencement of Harvard University." 

In the iSTantucket Inquirer of date September 16, 
1826, there is a notice of a visit of Sir Isaac Coffin to 
Nantucket, during which he spoke with affection of his 
native city, and attributed " all his attainments and 
renown to principles of knowledge imbibed in the 
public schools of Boston." 



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During his stay on the island he " visited principal 
places of resort, disregarded all court etiquette, and 
mingled freely with the inhabitants." 

He died at Cheltenham, England, in 1839, aged 
eighty years. 



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CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY. 

Christopher Hussey was baptized in Dorking, 
Surrey, England, and was the son of John Hussey and 
Mary (Wood). 

When a young man he spent some time in Holland, 
where he solicited in marriage Theodate, daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchilder, who gave his consent to 
their union on condition that they would come to 
America with him ; this condition was complied with, 
and they arrived in Boston in 1632 on the ship William 
and Francis. 

Christopher Hussey was one of the original settlers 
of Hampton, New Hampshire ; in 1636 he was " chosen 
by papers" as one of the " seven men," as they were 
first called, then " townesmen," then " townesmen 
select," and finally " select men," as at present. 

" They were fully empowered of themselves to do 
what the town had power to do, the reason whereof 
was the town judged it inconvenient and burdensome 
to be called together upon every occasion." 

In 1639, Christopher Hussey was made Justice of the 
Peace, which ofiice he held several years ; he was also 
town clerk and one of the first deacons of the church.* 

In 1659 he became one of the purchasers of Nan- 
tucket ; subsequently he was a sea-captain. 

Orders were received from the king, September 18, 
1679, " to erect New Hampshire into a separate govern- 
ment," under jurisdiction of a president and council 
to be appointed by himself; John Cutts was appointed 
president and Christopher Hussey, of Hampton, one of 
six councillors.f 



* Savage's General Dictionary. 

t One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, p. 146. 



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There are several theories concerning the death of 
Christopher Hussey. The fact that he followed the sea 
may have given rise to a belief that he was drowned 
at sea or eaten by cannibals. Joshua Coffin, however, 
says that he died at Hampton, New Hampshire, March 
6, 1686, and Austin, in " One Hundred and Sixty Allied 
Families," states that " Town records of Hampton de- 
clare he was buried there March 8, 1686." 

He had three sons and three daughters : 

Stephen, married Martha Bunker. 

John, married Rebecca Perkins. 

Joseph. 

Hulda, married John Smith and lived to be ninety- 
seven years old. 

Mary. 

Theodata. 

His eldest son, Stephen, who was born in Lynn, and 
was the first child christened there by his grandfather 
Rev. Stephen Batchilder, came to Nantucket and mar- 
ried Martha Bunker, October 8, 1676. He had lived at 
Barbadoes, had considerable property, and was a 
Friend before a Society was formed upon the island. 



Note — Rkv. Stephen Batchilder, or Bachiler, settled in Lynn, 
Massachusetts, in 1632, and with a few others established a church ; 
he was its first pastor. (Savage's General Dictionary, and One Hun- 
dred and Sixty Allied Families.) 

His signature and seal appended to letters may be seen in Massa- 
chusetts Historical Collection, vol. vii., fourth series. 
His children were : 

Theodata Batchilder, married Christopher Hussey. 
Deborah Batchilder, married John Wing. 

Batchilder, married Sanborn, and had : 

John Sanborn. 
Stephen Sanborn. 
William Sanborn. 



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He was at one time representative to the General 
Court. 

He died February 2, 1718, in his eighty-eighth year, 
and was buried in Friends' first burial ground at E'an- 
tucket. His children were Puella, Abigail, Sylvanus, 
Bachiller, Daniel, George, and Theodata. 



Nathaniel Batchilder, married 1st, Deborah Smith; 2d, Mary 
Wyman, of Woburn. 

Francis Batchilder. 

Stephen Batchilder. 

Some old records name a daughter Abigail Bachiler, who married 
Kichard Austin, father of Joseph. 

Kev. Stephen Batchelder was also one of the early settlers of 
Hampton, New Hampshire. 

"The first churches were formed at Hampton and Exeter. 
Hampton claims precedence in time. . . . The first pastor of this first- 
born church of the New State, and the father of the town, was Rev. 
Stephen Bachiler, an ancestor on the mother's side of Daniel Web- 
ster." (History of New Hampshire, by Edwin L Sanborn, LL.D., 
p. 53.) 



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STEPHEN GREENLEAF, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS 
FATHER, EDMUND GREENLEAF. 

The Greenleaf family is supposed to have been of 
Huguenot origin. The name was first known in Eng- 
land in 1590. 

Edmund, the first of the name who came to America, 
was born in the parish of Brixham, about 1600. lie 
married Sarah Dole, and with several children settled 
in iN'ewburyport, Massachusetts, in 1635. 

In 1639 he was made ensign, and later, lieutenant, 
and removed from New^bury to Boston.* 

Captain Johnson styles Edmund Greenleaf an " an- 
cient and experienced lieutenant under Captain Ger- 
rish, in 1644." 

The following is an extract from his will : " my will 
is being according to God's will and revealed in his 
word, that wee must pay what we owe and live of the 
rest, unto whose rule the sons of men ought to frame 
their wills and actions therefore." This to show^ his 
correct principles. Another extract may be given, 
showing how absolute he considered his power over 
his wife, who evidently had a will of her own : 

"... Besides when I married my wife she broucrht 
me a silver bowl, a silver porringer, a silver spoon, she 
lent or gave them to her son-in-law, James Hill, with- 
out my consent." 

This will is dated December 25, 1668. 

Stephen Greenleaf, son of Edmund, was born in 
1630, and married, November 13, 1651, Elizabeth Cof- 
fin, daughter of Tristram Coifin and Dionis (Stevens) 
Coflin. 

* Colonial Kecords. 



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He was one of the original proprietors of Nantucket, 
and, authority says, " a religious man." 

He was ensign, 1686, and captain in 1690, and en- 
gaged in Indian wars ; he was also representative to 
the General Court in 1676. 

At a court held at Newbury in 1686, March 30, 
" David Pierce, Captain Thomas Noyes, and Lieuten- 
ant Stephen Greenleaf are commissioned to be Magis- 
trates by the Court." 

" In the same year Lieutenant Stephen Greenleaf 
and Lieutenant Tristram Coffin with others are ap- 
pointed a committee on laying out and dividing wood- 
lands." 

November 21, 1686, " deacon Nicolas Noyes, deacon 
Robert Long and deacon Tristram Coffin were at the 
request of the select men chosen standing overseers of 
the poore for the town of Newbury." 

December 1, "Captain Daniel Pierce and Captain 
Stephen Greenleaf were added to the deacons as over- 
seers of the poore," and any three of them had power 
to act. 

May 6, 1689, " The Committee of Safety in Boston 
having desired us to send a man or men for consulting 
with them what may be best for the conservation of the 
peace of the country, Our inhabitants being met this 
6"" day of May, 1689, have chosen Captain Thomas 
Noyes and lieutenant Stephen Greenleaf sen. for the 
end aforesaid." 

March 5, 1696, Captain Greenleaf petitions the Gen- 
eral Court for compensation for repulsing an Indian 
raid, in which he was wounded in his side and wrist. 

His petition was read and forty pounds voted to be 
paid him out of the treasury of the province. 

The house attacked by the Indians was John Brown's, 



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and the follpwing is the family tradition respecting 
it: 

" The Indians had secreted themselves for sometime 
near the house, waiting for the absence of the male 
members of the fomily, who about three o'clock de- 
parted with a load of turnips. The Indians then 
rushed from their concealment, tomahawked a girl 
who was standing at the front door ; another girl who 
had concealed herself as long as the Indians remained, 
immediately after their departure gave the alarm." 

The coat which Captain Greenleaf wore in his pur- 
suit of the Indians is still preserved by his descend- 
ants, together \\dth the bullet which was extracted from 
his wound. 

Witli nine others, Stephen Greenleaf was wrecked 
and drowned off Cape Breton, December 1, 1690. 



Note. — State Street in Newbury (now Newburyport) was formerly 
Greenleaf's Lane. 



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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 
The blood of more than one of the pioneers of 
Nantucket flowed in the veins of the poet Whittier. 

The descent from Christopher Hussey, which was a 
tradition of the Whittier family, and was believed by 
the poet himself, appears upon late investigation to be 
uncertain. Recently, antiquarians trace his ancestry 
to Robert Hussey, who possibly was a son of Christo- 
pher, but this is not probable. 

His biographer, Mr. S. T. Pickard, of Portland, 
Maine, himself a descendant of Tristram Coffin, and a 
nephew of Joshua Coffin, the historian, is authority for 
the following statement. 

The lines of descent are complete from Tristram 
Coffin and Stephen Greenleaf, and are as follows : 

Edmund Greenleaf married Sarah Dole, and their 
son, Stephen Greenleaf, married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Tristram Coffin and Dionis (Stevens). The son of 
Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth (Coffin)— viz. : Tris- 
tram Greenleaf, born in 1667— married Margaret Piper 
in 1689 ; Tristram Greenleaf 's son, Nathaniel Green- 
leaf, born in 1691, had a daughter Sarah, born March 
5, 1721 ; she married Joseph Whittier, 2d, the grand- 
father of the poet. 



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OTHER PROPRIETORS. 



Recorded details of the remaining proprietors are 
very brief; concerning some there appears to be little 
record excepting of their proprietorship. 

Robert Pike was one of the original settlers of Salis- 
bury, Massachusetts, and shared the interest of Christo- 
pher Hussey as a proprietor of Nantucket. He con- 
tinued his relations with the settlers of the island until 
his death, which occurred about forty years after the 
purchase. As has already been stated, he was the warm 
friend of Thomas Macy. 

In 1637, on the 17th of May, in order to prevent the 
re-election of Sir Harry Vane as governor, and to 
strengthen the friends of Winthrop, ten men, among 
them Robert Pike and Thomas Coleman, went from 
Newbury to Cambridge on foot (forty miles) and quali- 
fied themselves to vote by taking the freeman's oath. 
Winthrop was chosen governor. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg.) 

Robert Pike was representative to the General Court 
in 1648-49 and 1658-59; captain and major in 1670; 
an assistant in 1682 ; and a member of the Council of 
Safety in 1689. 

Thomas Coleman must have removed to Nantucket 
prior to 1673, as on October 20 of that year he is 
recorded as "drawn on the jury" there. He is also 
named with Christopher Hussey and others in a list of 
those who settled Hampton, New Hampshire. 



Note. — Davis's History of Bucks County says the Pike family of 
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is said to descend from Robert Pike 
of Massachusetts. 



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Thomas and Egbert Barnard * settled in America 
about 1650. Thomas was one of the purchasers of 
Kantucket, in 1659 ; he transferred one-half of his 
interest to his brother Robert Barnard. Thomas died 
abroad. Robert Barnard, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 
removed to Kantucket in 1663, and died there in 1682 ; 
he married Joanna Harvey, who died in 1705 ; he had a 
son, John Barnard, born in 1642, who married Bethiah 
Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, and a daughter, Mary 
Barnard, who married her cousin Il^athaniel Barnard, 
son of Thomas and Eleanor Barnard. 

Among prominent men who have had a claim on 
Nantucket ancestry was Hon. Ezra Cornell, the founder 
of Cornell University, who descended from one, possibly 
from both, of the brothers above named. 

Ezra Cornell was grandson of Reuben Barnard, of 
Nantucket, and, during a visit to the island some years 
ago, spent some time in looking through Friends' 
records there. 

Richard Swain came to the island with his second 
wife (the widow of George Bunker) and his family. 
While living at Hampton he was " select-man and com- 
missionor for small causes, in 1639 he had liberty to 
settle small claims." John, the son of his first wife, 
married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Wier.f 



* The favorite motto of St. Bernard was " Sustine et abstine" (bear 
and forbear) ; the same motto is found on the Barnard or Bernard 
coat of arms. 

f " Nathaniel Weare, Newbury, son, perhaps, of Peter, of the same, 
born in England about 1631, . . . became counsellor of N. H. . . . 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Eichard Swain of Rowley." (Savage, 
vol. iv. p. 441.) 

Eichard Swain (Eowley, 1639), came to America in the " True- 



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Richard, the son of his second wife, moved to New 
Jersey ; Richard Swain, Sr., died in 1682, his son John 
in 1717. This family were members of the Society of 
Friends. 

John Swain, the proprietor (son of Richard Swain, 
Sr.), has left a record in his house, known as the oldest 
house on the island, which is still standing, although 
much out of repair. 

love," 1635, aged thirty-four; settled at Hampton ; married, in 1658. 
Jane Bunker, widow of George. Richard Swain's daughter Eliza- 
beth married Nathaniel Weare. 

John Swain, of Nantucket, probably son of Richard Swain the 
first, married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Wyer. (Savage, vol. iv. 
p. 234.) 

This must have been a daughter of the first Nathaniel, alluded to 
below, and a sister of Nathaniel who married Elizabeth Swain, or, if 
a daughter of the second Nathaniel, the child of a wife previous to 
Elizabeth. 

N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxv. p. 240, says, "The family of 
Wier is one of good standing in Scotland whose name is said to be 
the same as Vere. " 

" In early years in this country were persons spelling their name 
Weare, Weir, Weyer, Wier, Wire, Wyer, all probably intending the 
same name, and many, if not all, possibly belonging to one family." 

•' First was Robert Wyer of Boston, next Peter Weare who died 
in Newbury." 

" There was a Nathaniel Weare or Wire early in Newbury, after- 
wards of Nantucket, where he died March 1st, 1681, who had a 
daughter Hester, wife of Benjamin Swett and Stephen Greenleaf 
and a son Nathaniel who married in Newbury 3 December 1656 
Elizabeth Swain, moved to Hampton, was a Councillor and Chief 
Justice of New Hampshire, and died 13 May 1718 leaving sons 
Nathaniel and Peter" and. Savage says, "six others." 



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PETER FOLGER. 

Benjamin Franklin, in his genealogical notes, infers 
that the Folger family was of Flemish origin, and went 
to England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 

Peter Folger, son of John Folger, was born in 
1617, and came from ITorwich, England, in 1635. 

He went with his father to Martha's Vineyard, where 
he taught a school and surveyed land; he also assisted 
Thomas May hew, Jr., in his labors as a missionary 
among the Indians. 

He was a Baptist, but it is believed that when an old 
man he embraced the views of Friends. 

Although he was not one of the first proprietors of 
^N'antucket, he may be regarded as a very early settler, 
having removed to the island in 1663. 

" is^an tucket, 4*'' July, 1663. 

" These presents witnesseth that we whose names 
are underwritten do give and grant unto peter foulger, 
half a share of accomodations on the land above sayd, 
that is to say half so much as one of the twenty pur- 
chasers, both in respect of upland, meadow, wood, 
timber and other appurtenances belonging to him and 
his hiers forever on condition that he com to inhabit 
on Ifland aforesayd with his family within one year 
after the sale hereof. Likewise that the sayd peter 
shall atend the English in the way of an Interpreter 
between the Indians and them upon al necessary oca- 
sions, his house lot to be layd at the place commonly 



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called by the name of Rogers field so as may be most 
convenient. 

" Witness our bands. 
" John Smyth " Tristram Coffin Sr 

" Thos Macy for myself and others 

"Edward Starbuck being empowered by 

"John Swayne them. 

" Egbert Barnard 

" Richard Swayne " Peter Coffin 
" John Rolfe " Steven Greenleaf 

" Thos Mayhew " Tristram Coffin Jr 

" William Pile for two 

shares 
" Nathaniel Starbuck 
" Thomas Coffin" 



Cotton Mather describes Peter Folger as an " Able 
Godley Englishman who was employed in teaching 
the youth in Reading, Writing and the Principles of 
Religion by Catechism, being well learned likewise in 
the Scriptures and Capable of Help in religious mat- 
ters." 

At Nantucket he was chosen clerk of the court and 
recorder July 21, 1673 ; he also surveyed lands for the 
settlers, and was regarded as the scholar of the com- 
munity. 

The varied employments of Peter Folger prove him 
to have been as versatile as industrious ; to him, at 
least, " the knowing Folgers lazy" could not have 
been applied ; and if there was ever any foundation in 
fact for the character which the little Nantucket rhyme 
has fastened upon this family, it must have been earned 
by a later representative of the name. 



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His mantle fell upon some of his descendants, and 
he bequeathed to them decided ability. 

" His son Eleazer and Eleazer, Jr., were intelligent 
literary and mathematical." 

Peter Folger died in 1690 ; Mary, his widow, in 1704. 

Abiah Folger, the youngest child of Peter Folger, 
and the only one born on Nantucket, married Josiah 
Franklin, of Boston. 

Benjamin Franklin, son of Josiah and Abiah (Fol- 
ger) Franklin, married Deborah Read, of Philadel- 
phia. 

Richard Bache, born in England, in 1737, immi- 
grated to the United States, where he married, in 1767, 
Sarah, only daughter of Benjamin and Deborah (Read) 
Franklin. Richard Bache was Postmaster-General of 
the United States in 1776. 

Richard Bache's marriage with Sarah, daughter of 
Benjamin Franklin, continues the Folger family line 
in Philadelphia, Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, 
being a grand-daughter of Richard Bache.* This 
branch of Peter Folger's family has made its mark in 
many lines of work ; there have been among the gen- 
erations which have succeeded the great philosopher 
men who have reached distinction in the army and 
navy, as men of letters, at the bar, and in the service of 
the church, and women who in patriotic and educa- 
tional work have proved the ability transmitted to 
them from their venerable ancestor. 

It is gratifying to note in the autobiography of 
Franklin that he was deeply interested in his ancestors, 
nor did he consider time lost when in England he made 



* Other descendants in this line intermarried with Irwin, Hodge, 
Humphrey, Davis, Pepper, and Perry (of the family of Commodore 
Perry). 

4 



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an eifort to ascertain from records there the past his- 
tory of his family. 

"Walter Folger, another descendant of Peter Folger, 
was son of Walter and Elizabeth (Starbuck) Folger. 
Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas Starbuck. 

Walter Folger first was son of Barzillai and Phebe 
(Coleman) Folger. 

Barzillai was son of ISTathan, who was son of Eleazer 
and Sarah (Gardner) Folger, and Eleazer was son of 
Peter Folger. 

Walter Folger second practised law for twenty years, 
and was for six years judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas, during which time no case decided by him was 
ever carried to a higher court ; he was six years in the 
Massachusetts Senate, one year in the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Massachusetts, and four years in the Con- 
gress of the United States ; in addition to this he was 
one of the best mathematicians and mechanics of his 
day. He has left as a record of his mechanical skill a 
remarkable clock, still in the possession of his family. 

He commenced work upon this clock at the age of 
twenty-two, and, devoting to it his leisure hours only, 
completed it in the course of the second year. 

It was put in motion July 4, 1790, and in 1895, 
though brown with age, it is a good time-keeper; the 
glass only which covered its face has been renewed. 
William C. Folger says, '' He made not only the works 
but the case also, I am told." 

" It is made of brass and steel. It keeps the date 
of the year and the day of the month ; the sun and 
moon rise and set in accordance with those in the 
heavens ; it also shows the earth's place on the ecliptic ; 
it keeps the moon's nodes around the ecliptic ; the 



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wheel that keeps the date of the year revolves once in 
one hundred years, remaining still ten years, and at 
the expiration of each ten years it starts regularly one 
notch ; the diurnal motion of the sun is represented by 
a circular metallic plate so adjusted that it is seen 
through a slit in the dial-plate at a greater or less me- 
ridian altitude, as the declination changes, rising and 
setting as in nature, and changing the time in con- 
formity to the latitude, . . . giving also through the 
entire day the time of his rising and setting and place 
of the earth on the ecliptic ; the moon is represented 
by a spherule exhibited to the eye in the same man- 
ner, but by having one hemisphere colored, and, by a 
process much more complicated, shows not only the 
rising, setting, and southing of the moon with the time 
of full sea at Nantucket, but also the chief phenom- 
ena dependent on the obliquity of the moon's path to 
the ecliptic, such as the hunter's and harvest moons. 

" Some of these involve a motion of the works 
through a period of eighteen years and two hundred 
and twenty-five days, and the wheel by which the date 
of the year is advertised is so constructed that its revo- 
lution is only completed in one hundred years." 

Walter Folger never learned a trade, never studied 
law with a lawyer, nor went to any institution of 
learning where anything above the alphabet, spelling, 
reading in the Bible, arithmetic, and surveying were 
taught. 

Maria Mitchell, late Professor of Astronomy at 
Vassar College, whose mathematical ability needs no 
comment to the present generation, was a lineal de- 
scendant of Peter Folger. Maria Mitchell was daughter 
of William and Lydia (Coleman) Mitchell. Lydia 



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Coleman was daughter of Andrew Coleman, who was 
son of Enoch, who was son of Jeremiah, who was son 
of John, who married Joanna Folger, daughter of 
Peter Folger. On the paternal side as well she was de- 
scended from Peter Folger, and from many of the early 
settlers on the Island. (See pages 83-87.) 

The connection of the Barker family with Nantucket 
and with the family of Peter Folger furnishes a link 
between Nantucket and Plymouth. 

Jacob Barker, financier and merchant, was son of 

Robert Barker and Sarah Gardner. 
Robert Barker was son of 

Samuel Barker and Bethiah Folger. 
Samuel Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Judith Prence. 
Bethiah Folger was daughter of 

John, and grand-daughter of Peter Folger. 

Judith Prence was daughter of 

Governor Thomas Prence and Mary Collier, 

and grand-daughter of 
William Collier. 

"William Collier, whose daughter Mary was second 
wife of Governor Prence, was a wealthy merchant, who 
came early to Plymouth and soon removed to Duxbury.* 
It is not known whether he brought with him a wife, 
but Savage says " four daughters of excellent character 
came with him," — Sarah, who married Love Brewster ; 
Mary, who married Thomas Prence; Elizabeth, who 
married Constant Southworth ; and Rebecca. 

William Collier was assistant governor twenty-eight 

* Savage, vol. i. p. 443. 



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years,* member of Council of War four years,t member 
of Provincial Congress in 1643, and one of the com- 
mittee of two appointed by Congress to sign the Articles 
of Confederation.! He died in Duxbury in 1671. 

Thomas Prence was born at Lechdale, Gloucester- 
shire, England, in 1600 ; he died in Plymouth, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1673. He was governor of the Plymouth 
Colony eighteen years, assistant thirteen years, treas- 
urer one year, member of the Council of War five 
years, commissioner twelve years, alternate commis- 
sioner several years. The :N'. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 
vol. vi. p. 234, thus speaks of him : 

" He was a worthy gentleman and very able for his 
ofiice, and faithful in the discharge thereof, studious of 
peace, a well wilier to all that feared God and a terror 
to the wicked." 

Doubtless from various records Thomas Prence was 
a zealot in his own belief and intolerant of all whose 
views did not accord with his ; it must be remembered 
that in that day intolerance was the rule and charity 
the exception. 

Governor Prence and his associates believed they 
were engaged in their Master's service in any perse- 
cutions they were party to, and the author of " The 
Pilgrim Republic" says, "A severe execution of the 
laws was exceptional with them and they often exer- 
cised leniency on slight pretexts." 

He further says, " Thomas Prence had ever swayed 
the courts in religious matters. Let it stand as a 

* Plj^mouth Colonial Records, vol. i. pp. 32-36, etc. 
t Ibid., vol. ii. pp. 47, 64. 

I See Winsor's History of Duxbury, p. 90, and Savage, vol. i. p 
433. 



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redeeming trait to his character that he used this 
influence to emancipate his people from the bonds of 
a world-wide superstition.* Prence also honored him- 
self by zealously promoting public education. . . . 
The stern Galvanism which he cherished had long 
been losing its hold on the public mind and the signs 
of the times were ominous to those conservative prin- 
ciples which he considered essential to a good govern- 
ment ... it is probable that the weary Governor was 
quite ready to go when death summoned him from the 
Government-house April 8, 1673 at the age of seventy- 
three, f 

" Ten days later with all the ceremony due to his 
office he was laid on Burial Hill in a grave now un- 
known." 

"William Allen Butler belongs to this branch of 
the family, his great-grandmother having been a half- 
sister of Jacob Barker and daughter of the aforesaid 
Robert Barker. 

Another descendant of Peter Folger was the late 
Charles James Folger, who was born at Nantucket 
in 1818; when he was thirteen years of age the family 
removed to Geneva, New York. He graduated at 
Hobart College in 1836, read law with Mark H. Sibley, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was judge. 
State senator, chief justice, sub-treasurer of the United 
States, in New York, and finally Secretary of the 
Treasury of the United States. 

* Witchcraft. 

f Fordates and authority concerning the services of Thomas Prence, 
see Justin Winsor's History of Duxbury ; Plymouth Colony Kecords ; 
Savage; N. E. Hist, and Gen. Eeg. ; and The Pilgrim Kepublic, by 
John A. Goodwin. 



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THOMAS GARDINER AND HIS SONS RICHARD AND JOHN 
GARDNER. 

Thomas Gardiner, or Gardner, the first of the 
Salem stock, came to America from England, in 1624, 
where the family had flourished for more than three 
centuries. 

He was chief ruler or governor of the Cape Ann 
Colony, under the auspices of the Dorchester Com- 
pany.* 

Not realizing here the success intended, he removed 
to Salem and was elected the same year representa- 
tive to the General Court ; f he was member of the 
Town Council of Salem for a number of years. % 

From Historical Collections of Essex Institute of 
Salem, we learn that the name of Gardner has been 
known and respected throughout the entire history of 
the city. 

Thomas Gardiner had several sons, among whom, 
as early settlers of Nantucket, although not original 
proprietors, were Richard and John, who took an 
active part in affairs civil and military. 

Austin says that Richard Gardner lived at Salem 
from 1643 to 1666 ; he and his wife (Sarah Shattuck) 
were persecuted for attending Quaker Meeting, and 
went to Nantucket, where they spent the remainder of 
their lives. 

In 1673, Governor Lovelace commissioned Richard 

*]Sr. E. Hist, and Gen. Keg., vol. xxv. pp. 48, 49. 

f Mass. Col. Records, vol. i. p. 204. 

J One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families. 

Note. — Some descendants of Lion Gardiner live now on Nan- 
tucket; whether there is any connection between Governor Gardiner 
and Lion Gardiner is not known. 



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as chief magistrate of Nantucket, "he to hold his 
commission until the next election and return and 
approbation of a new one by Francis Lovelace." * 

Cojyy of '■'■A Letter from the Secretary to y' Inhab" of Nan- 
tuckett. [Deeds HI. 89, Secretary's Office.'] 

" New Torke, Apr. y« 24th, 1673. 

" Gent : — By the Governo" Ord' I am to acquaint 
you, That hee Received your Letter (bearing Date 
the 3d Day of Aprill) about three weeks fince, by 
the Hands of Mr. Richard Gardner, together with 
eight Barrels of ffifli for two Yeares, Acknowledge- 
ment, and a Token of fifty weight of ffeathers, for 
which your Care of the Former and Kindnefs in the 
Latter hee Returns you Thanks. There came to the 
Governo' in the Winter a Letter from Mr Tristram 
Coffin about your Election, but no other from you ; in 
anfwer to which you had heard from him fooner, but 
the Difficulty of Conveyance hindered. You will now 
underftand the Governors Choice, by the Bearers here- 
of Mr. Richard and Captain John Gardner ; 

" That is, Mr. Richard Gardner for Chiefe Magiftrate 
this Yeare, and Capt. John Gardner for Chiefe Mili- 
tary Officer, for wdiich they have Commiffions. They 
have alfo -with them fome Additional Inftructions and 
Directions to Communicate to you ; moft of which 
were Propofed by thofe two ifriends you sent who 
have prudently Managed the Truft you Repofed in 
them. They have alfo with them a Booke of the 
Lawes of the Government, and three Conftables 
Staves ; 

* Authority for this commission may be found on pp. 87, 88, 
in a manuscript volume entitled Deeds, Vol. 3, in the office of the 
Secretary of State in Albany. 



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" Ab to your Non-performanee of the Acknowledge- 
ment according to the Strictnefs of the Time, his 
Hono'' being fenfible that Opportunities doe not very 
frequently prefent between these Places, hee is very 
well Satisfyed with your Civill Excufe. If at any Time 
you have other Propofalls to make, for the Good of 
yo' Inhabitants, you may reft affured of his Hono" 
ready Complyance therein. This is all I have in 
Charge to Deliver unto you from the Governour, foe 
take Leave and Subscribe 

" Gent : Yo^ very humble Servant 

" Matthias ISTicolls." 

John Gardner was magistrate at JSTantucket in 1680, 
and judge of probate from 1699 until his death, which 
occurred in 1706, at the age of eighty-two. He is re- 
ferred to by Cotton Mather as being " well acquainted 
with the Indians, having divers years assisted them in 
their government, by instructing them in the laws of 
England and deciding difficult cases among them.* In 
1673, John Gardner w^as appointed " Captain and Chief 
Military Officer of the Ffoot Company." 

Copy of " Commiffion for Cap^ John Gardner of the Ifland 
of Nantucket, to hee Capt. of the Foot Company there. 
[Deeds III. 88, Secretary's Office.'] 
" Francis Lovelace, Esq''., &c : Governo" Gen^^^ under 

his Royall H° James Duke of Yorke and Albany, &c; 

* From no records do we read of serious difficulties on Nantucket 
between the Indians and the white men, they followed the example 
of the settlers in fishing for whales, which were plentiful on that 
shoal-bound coast, and " became the most expert of the original 
whalers of Nantucket." This industry was first carried on in small 
open boats at short distances from shore. 



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of all his Territoryes in America ; To Cap'. John Gard- 
ner of y' Island Nantuckett. Whereas, You are one 
of the two Persons returned unto mee by the Inhab" 
of your Ifland, to bee the Chiefe Military Officer there, 
having conceived a good opinion of your ffittnefs and 
Capacity ; By Vertue of the Commiff ion and Authority 
unto mee given by his Eoyall Highneffe, James Duke 
of Yorke and Albany, I have Constituted and Ap- 
pointed, and by these Presents doe hereby Constitute 
and Appoint you John Gardner to be Captaine and 
Chiefe Military Officer of the ffoot Company rifsen or 
to bee rifen within the If lands of Nantuckett and Tuc- 
kanuckett ; you are to take the said Company into your 
Charge and Care as Captaine thereof, and them duly 
to Exercise in Armes ; and all Officers and Souldyers 
belonging to the said Company are to Obey you as 
their Captaine. 

" And you are to follow fuch Orders and Inftructions, 
as you fhall from Time to Time Receive from mee o)c 
other your Superiour Officers according to the disci- 
pline of "Warr ; for the doeing whereof this fhall be 
your Comiffion. 

Note. — John Gardner's daughter Rachel married John Brown, of 
Salem, son of Elder John Brown and Hannah (Hobart). 

Hannah Hobart was daughter of Eev. Peter Hobart, who was born 
in Hingham, County of Norfolk, England, in 1604, and died in 
Hingham, Massachusetts, January 20, 1679. (Hobart Family Me- 
morial, Part I., pp. 103, 104, No. 23., III. A.) 

He was the first minister of the Gospel in Hingham, Massachusetts, 
was educated at Cambridge, England, and came to New England 
June 8, 1635 ; was admitted freeman same year, and settled at Hing- 
ham in September, 1635. 

Savage, vol. ii. p. 435, says he took his A.B. in 1625, his A.M. 
in 1629, that he wrote his name Hubberd, was of the Magdalen 
College, and had preached at divers places, last at Haverhill, in 
Suflfolk, before coming here. 



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" Given under my Hand and Seale at Fort James in 
ISTew Yorke this 15th Day of Aprill in the 25th Yeare 
of his Ma"*' Reigne, Annoq' Domini, 1673, 

" Fran. Lovelace." 

Savage further says, — 

" Peter brought with him a wife and four children certainly, — 
viz. : 

"Joshua Hobart. 

"Jeremiah Hobart. 

" Josiah Hobart. 

"Elizabeth Hobart, m. John Ripley. 

" And after coming here thirteen were added to the number, — viz. : 

" Icabod Hobart. 

"Hannah Hobart, died soon. 

"Hannah Hobart, m. John Brown, of Salem. 

" Bathsheba Hobart, m. Joseph Turner, of Scituate, 1640. 

"Israel Hobart, m. Sarah Wetherill, dau. of Rev. William 
Wetherill, 1668. 

" Jael Hobart, m. Joseph Bradford, son of Governor Bradford. 

" Gershom Hobart, m. Sarah . 

" Japhet Hobart, m. 

" JSTehemiah Hobart, m. Sarah Jackson, 1678. 

"David Hobart, m. 1st, Joanna Quincy, dau. Edmund Quincy 
second ; 2d, Sarah Joyce. 

" Rebecca Hobart, m. Daniel Mason, of Stonington (as second 
wife). 

" Abigail Hobart, unm. 

" Lydia Hobart, m. Captain Thomas Lincoln, 1690 (as second 
wife), and [Savage adds] 'the patriarch died 1679.' 

" In Rev. Peter Hobart's will, made four days before his death, he 
names fourteen living children, and wife Rebecca (probably daughter 
of Richard Ibrook), who was mother of the last six children ; no men- 
tion is made in Hingham records of the death of the iirst wife. 

" Edmund Hobart, father of Rev. Peter Hobart, was a member of 
the General Court, 1639-40-42, from Hingham, Massachusetts. He 
brought a wife and several children with him from England in 1635, 
and died in 1646, leaving Edmund, Joshua, Rev. Peter, Thomas, and 
two daughters, Rebecca and Sarah." 



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SAMUEL SHATTUCK. 

The name of Samuel Shattuck is associated with 
Nantucket through the marriage of his daughter, 
Sarah Shattuck,* to Richard Gardner; hy this mar- 
riage Samuel Shattuck became the ancestor of many 
Nantucket people. 

Samuel Shattuck, who is described as " an inhabi- 
tant of Salem of good repute," was born in England 
about 1620; on coming to this country he settled in 
Salem, Massachusetts. 

A stone still standing over his grave in Salem bears 
the following inscription : 

" Here lyeth buried y" body of Samuel Shattuck 
aged 69 years who departed this life in y* 6th day of 
June 1689." He was present at a Friend's Meeting 
when Christopher Holder attempted to speak, and he 
" endeavored to prevent their thrusting a handkerchief 
into Holder's mouth lest it should have choked him," 
for which attempt he was carried to Boston and im- 
prisoned till he had " given bond to answer it at the 
next Court and not to come to any Quaker meeting." 

The following extracts are taken from the edition of 
Besse's " Collection of The Sufferings of the People 
called Quakers," printed in London in 1753 (vol. ii. pp. 
187, 188.) 



* It has been the belief of many descendants of Sarah (Shattuck) 
Gardner that she was a daughter of Samuel Shattuck, and Savage 
(vol. ii. p. 229) says, " Kichard Gardner married Sarah Shattuck, 
probably daughter of Samuel;" other authorities give Samuel with 
Sarah in a list of the children of Damaris Shattuck (widow who mar- 
ried Thomas Gardiner). 



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A Letter of the Prisoners to the Magistrates at the Court 

in Salem. 
" Friends : 

"Whereas it was your Pleasures to commit us, 
whose names are underwritten, to the House of Cor- 
rection in Boston, although the Lord the righteous 
Judge of Heaven and Earth is our witness, that we 
had done nothing worthy of Stripes or of Bonds, and 
we being committed by your Court to be dealt withal 
as the Law provides for foreign Quakers, as y* please 
to term us; and having some of us suffered your Law 
and Pleasures, now that which we do expect is, now to 
be set free by the same Law, as your Manner is with 
Strangers and not to put us in upon the Account of one 
Law and execute another Law upon us, of which, ac- 
cording to your own Manner, we were never convicted 
as the Law expresses. If you had sent us upon the 
Account of your new Law, we should have expected 
the Gaoler's Order to have been on that Account, which 
that it was not, appears by the Warrant which we have, 
and the Punishment which we bare, as four of us were 
whipped, among whom was one that had formerly 
been whipt, so now also, according to your former 
Law. Friends, let it not be a small Thing in your 
Eyes, the exposing, as much as in you lies, our fami- 
lies to Ruin. 

" It's not unknown to you, the Season, and the Time 
of the Year, for those that live of Husbandry, and 
what their Cattle and Families may be exposed unto ; 
and also such as live on Trade. 

" We know if the Spirit of Christ did dwell and rule 
in you, these Things would take Impression upon your 
Spirits. 



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" What our Lives and Conversations have been, in 
that place is well known, and what we now suffer for, 
is much for false Reports and ungrounded Jealousies of 
Heresy and Sedition. These Things lie upon us to lay 
before you. As for our Parts, we have true Peace and 
Rest in the Lord in all our Sufferings, and are made 
willing in the Power and Strength of God, freely to 
offer up our Lives in this Cause of God, for which we 
suffer; Yea, and we do find, through Grace, the En- 
largements of God in our imprisoned Estate, to whom 
alone we commit ourselves and Families, for the dis- 
posing of us according to his infinite Wisdom and 
Pleasure, in whose Love is our Rest and Life. 

" From the House of Bondage in Boston, wherein 
we are made captives, by the Wills of Men, although 
made free by the Son of God, John VHI — 36. In 
which we quietly rest this 16'^ of the Fifth month 1658. 

"Laurence, -j 
"Cassandra. ISouthwick. 

" JOSIAH. j 

" Samuel Shattuck. 
"Joshua Buffum." 

" On the 11th of the Third Month, 1659, the afore- 
said Laurence and Cassandra Southwick, their son 
Josiah, Samuel Shattuck, and others were called before 
the Court, and as they continued steadfast in what 
the governor was pleased to call rebellion against 
the Authority of the country the Sentence of Banish- 
ment was pronounced against them, and but a Fort- 
night's Time allowed for them to depart, on pain of 
Death, nor would they grant them any longer Time, 
though desired : So the said Samuel Shattuck, Nich- 
olas Phelps, and Josiah Southwick were obliged to 



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take an Opportunity that presented four Days after 
to pass for England by Barbadoes. The aged couple 
Laurence and Cassandra went to Shelter Island where 
shortly after they died within three Days of each other ; 
and Joshua Buffum departed to Rhode Island." (Vol. 
II., page 198.) 

Copy of the King's Letter or Mandamus. 
" Trusty and Wellbeloved, we greet you well. 
Having been informed that several of our Subjects 
among you, called Quakers, have been and are im- 
prisoned by you, whereof some have been executed, 
and others (as hath been represented unto us) are in 
Danger to undergo the Like : We have thought fit to 
signify our Pleasure, in that Behalf for the future, and 
do require, that if there be any of those People called 
Quakers amongst you, now already condemned to suffer 
Death, or other Corporal Punishment, or that are im- 
prisoned, or obnoxious to the like Condemnation, you 
are to forbear to proceed any farther, but that you 
forthwith send the said Persons (whether condemned 
or imprisoned) over to this our Kingdom of England, 
together with their respective Crimes or Offences laid 
to their Charge, to the End such Course may be taken 
with them here, as shall be agreeable to our Laws and 
their Demerits. And for so doing, these our Letters 
shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge. Given 
at our Court at Whitehall the O"" Day of September 
1661 in the thirteenth year of our Reign." 

" Subscribed, To our Trusty and Welbeloved John 
Endicot Esq. and to all and every other the Governour 
or Governours of our Plantation of New England, and 
of the Colonies thereunto belonging, that now are or 



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hereafter shall be ; And to all and every the Minister's 
and Officers of our said Plantation and Colonies what- 
ever within the Continent of New England. 

" By His Majesty's Command. 

" WiL. Morris." 

(Vol. II., Page 225.) 

" In procuring the aforesaid Letter or Mandamus 
from the King, Edward Burroughs was a principle 
Instrument for when the ISTews of W. Leddra's Death 
came to the Ears of the Friends at London, and of the 
Danger many others of their Persuasion were in, they 
were much concerned, especially the said Edward 
Burroughs, who speedily repaired to the Court and 
having got Access to the King's Presence, told him, 
There loas a Vein of iyinocent Blood opened in his Domin- 
ions, which if it were not stopped might overrun all. To 
which the King replied. But Iivill stop that Vein. Then 
Burroughs desired him to do it speedily, for there was 
Danger of many others being soon put to Death. 

" The King answered, As speedy as you will and 
ordered the Secretary to be called, and the Mandamus 
to be forthwith granted. 

" A few Days after Edward Burroughs went again 
to the King, desiring Dispatch of the Business. The 
King said. He had no present Occasion to send a Ship 
thither, but if they would send one, they might as 
soon as they would. 

" The King also granted his Deputation to Samuel 
Shattock who had been banished thence, to carry his 
Mandamus to New England. 

" Whereupon an Agreement was made with Ralph 
Goldsmith, one of the said People called Quakers, and 
Master of a good Ship, for 300^ to sail forthwith. 



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" He immediately prepared for his Voyage and in 
about six weeks arrived in Boston Harbor, on a First- 
day of the Week, 

" The Townsmen seeing a Ship with English Colours 
soon came on board and asked for the Captain. 

" Ralph Goldsmith told them he was the Com- 
mander. They asked, Whether he had any Letters ? 
He answered. Yes. But withal told them, He would 
not deliver them that Day. 

" So they returned on shore again, and reported, 
that There were man}^ Quakers come, and that Samuel 
Shattuck (who they knew had been banished on pain 
of Death) was among them. 

"But they knew nothing of his Errand or Au- 
thority. 

" Thus all was kept close, and none of the Ship's 
Company suffered to go on shore that Day. 

" I^ext morning Ralph Goldsmith the Commander, 
with Samuel Shattuck, the King's Deputy, went on 
shore, and sending the Boat back to the Ship, they two 
went directly through the Town to the Governour's 
House, and knockt at the Door : He sending a Man to 
know their Business, they sent him Word, that their 
Message was from the King of England, and that they 
would deliver it to none but himself. i^ 

" Then they were admitted to go in, and the Gov- 
ernour came to them and commanded Samuel Shat- 
tuck's Hat to be taken off, and having received the 
Deputation and the Mandamus, he laid off his own 
Hat, and ordering Shattuck's Hat to be given him 
again, perused the Papers, and then went out to the 
Deputy-Governour's, bidding the King's Deputy and 
the Master of the Ship to follow him : Being come to 
the Deputy-Governour's and having consulted him, he 



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returned to the aforesaid two Persons, and said, "We 
shall obey his Majesty's Command. 

" After this the Master of the Ship gave Liberty to 
his Passengers to come on shore, which they did and 
had a religious Meeting with their Friends of the 
Town, where they returned Praises to God for his 
Mercy manifested in this wonderful Deliverance. 

" Not long after the following order at Boston was 
issued : 

" To William Salter Keeper of the Prison at Boston. 
" You are required, by Authority and Order of the 
General-Court forthwith to release and discharge the 
Quakers who at present are in your Custody : See that 
you dont neglect this. 

" By Order of the Court 

" Edward Rawson, Secretary. 

" Boston the 9^'' of 
December 1661." 

To the instrumentality of Samuel Shattuck, aided 
by Edward Burroughs, is due the discontinuance, for 
a time at least, of one of the most iniquitous persecu- 
tions ever carried on, instigated by those who them- 
selves had suffered for conscience' sake. Whipping 
and imprisonment were later resorted to, but never to 
the same extent. 

With this mandate from the king, Samuel Shattuck 
was safe to live thereafter a peaceable life in Salem. 

The usual character accorded to the early settlers of 
New England for extraordinary Christian names is ex- 
empMed by a son Retire and a daughter Return, 
mentioned in records of Samuel Shattuck. These were 
supposed to be commemorative of his banishment and 
return. 



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These two children probably died young, as in the 
division of the property they are not mentioned; at 
all events the names have not descended. 



Note. — In Besse's History is an account of the death of "William 
Kobinson, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Leddra, and Mary Dyer, 
■who suffered martyrdom by hanging in Boston in 1660 for their firm 
adherence to the principles of truth as professed by Friends. Wenlock 
Christisen was under sentence of death when Samuel Shattuck returned 
from England bearing the mandamus from King Charles Second 
requiring the release of all Friends from prison. 



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THOMAS MAYHEW AND THOMAS MAYHEW, Jr. 

That Thomas Mayhew was a proprietor of Nantucket 
has been previously shown. He selected " his sonne" 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., as his associate. 

It is probable that Thomas Mayhew, Sr., never had 
more than a business connection with Nantucket, but 
one of his descendants married a descendant of Peter 
Folger. 

Thomas Mayhew was born early in 1592, and was a 
merchant of Southampton, England, but emigrated to 
America in 1633 or 1634, was admitted a freeman May 
14, 1634, and early in 1635 settled at Watertown, 
Massachusetts, where he owned mills purchased of 
Mr. Cradock, and a farm ; he was at one time pro- 
prietor of the Oldham farm. He was a selectman 
from 1637 to 1643, and a representative to the General 
Court from 1636 to 1644. 

In 1641 he obtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard, 
and sent there his son Thomas and several other persons 
who settled at Edgartown. (History of Watertown.) 
He himself did not move to Martha's Vineyard until 
1644 or 1645. 

Whether he brought any other children from 
England has not been ascertained. 

Cotton Mather says of him, — 

" The worshipful Thomas Mayhew in the year 1641 
obtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and 
Elizabeth Isles to make a settlement. 

Note. — "William C. Folger's MS. says, "The first Mayhew known 
in England was Simon, who went there in 1000 a.d. from Normandy, 
settled in County of "Wiltshire, and from "Wiltshire came Thomas 
Mayhew to America." 



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"His son Mr Thomas Mayhew in the year 1642 
settl'd at Martha's Vineyard with a few other Inhabi- 
tants where his Reputation for Piety, his Natural 
Gifts, besides the acquir'd by his Education (having 
attained no small knowledge in the Latin and Greek 
tongues; and being not wholly a stranger to the 
Hebrew) soon occasioned his Call to the Ministry 
among that handful. 

" In 1647 he intended a short voyage for England, 
but alas, the ship wherein he took passage was never 
heard of" 

Of Thomas Mayhew, the governor, he says, — 

" I have already told my Reader that the Govern- 
ment of this People was the best (of all Governments) 
Monarchy; and it has been Judged not without 
Reason, that a main Obstruction in the Progress of the 
Gospel in the American Plantation, was, if not yet is, 
the Jealousie the Princes conceiv'd of the Invasion of 
their Government through the Pretences of Religion 
and the Eclipsing their Monarchical Dignity. 

" Mr Thomas Mayhew therefore finding that the 
Princes on these Islands, who although they main- 
tained their Absolute Power and Jurisdiction as Kings, 
were yet bound to do certain Homage to a Potent 
Prince on the Continent ; and although they were no 
great People, yet had been wasted in Indian Wars, 
wherein the Great Princes on the Continent (not un- 
like European Princes for like Reasons of State) were 
not unassisting, w^hereby they were necessitated to 
make these Princes the Balance to decide their Con- 
troversies, and several Jurisdictions, by Presents an- 
nually sent, whereby obliging the Princes to give their 
several Assistance as Occasion requir'd. 

"And seeing his son, as aforesaid, in a Zealous En- 



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deavor for their Conversion he judged it meet that 
Moses and Aaron joyn Hands. 

" He therefore prudently lets them know, that by 
Order from his Master the King of England, he was 
to govern the English which should inhabit these 
Islands ; 

" That his Master was in Power far above any of the 
Indian Monarchs ; but that as he was Powerful so was 
he a great Lover of Justice : 

" That therefore he would in no measure invade 
their Jurisdiction but on the Contrary assist them as 
'Need required : 

" That Religion and Covernment were distinct 
Things. 

" Thus in no long time they conceiv'd no ill Opinion 
of the Christian Religion." (B YL, Magnalia Section 

ni.) 

In closing the history of Thomas Mayhew's Govern- 
ment he says, — 

" I shall close the whole when I have told the Reader 
that their Children are generally taught to Read and 
Write. 

" In one of their towns last winter viz : 1693, thirty 
Children were at school, twenty more of the same 
place, accidentally, being not supplied with books 
could not attend to it. 

" Such who are too far distant from any school are 
often taught by some of their neighbors ; in divers 
places there are lesser schools." 

Thomas Mayhew, Jr., left three sons (who subse- 
quently assumed a leading part in the affairs of these 
islands.) These sons were named Thomas, John, 
and Matthew. 

To his grandchildren Thomas Mayhew alludes in 



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a postscript of a letter to Governor Edmond An- 
dros : * 

" May it please yo' Hono"" to image what I have on 
these Islands 

Graund Sonnes 15 

My sonnes sonnes sonnes 3 

Daughters ^ 

Graund Daughters ^ 

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'' I prayfe God two of my Graund-sons doe preach 
to English and Indians, Matthew sometimes to the 
younge." 

Thomas, the grandson, died in 1715, and John in 
1689, aged thirty-seven years. 

Experience Mayhew, a minister, author of " Indian 
Converts or Some Account of the Lives and Dyeing 
Speeches of Christianized Indians of Martha's Vine- 
yard in New England," published in London 1727, 
was a son of John Mayhew. 

Jonathan Mayhew, who was born in Martha's Vine- 
yard, October 8, 1720, and died in Boston, July 9, 
1766, was a clergyman and an advocate of liberalism ; 
he was a son of Experience Mayhew. 



*N. Y. Col. MSS., xxiv., Secretary's Office. 



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EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS OF JOHN RICHARDSON AND 
THOMAS STORY, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RISE 
OF FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET. 

John Eichardson says, " It was much with me, 
when on Rhode Island to visit Nantucket, where there 
were but very few Friends. . . . 

" We landed safe, and as we went up an Ascent we 
saw a great many people looking towards the Sea, for 
great Fear had possess'd them, that our Sloop was a 
French Sloop loaded with Men and Arms, who were 
coming to invade the Island ; I held out my Arms 
and told them, I knew not of any worse Arms than 
these on board. 

" They said, they were glad it was no worse, for 
they had intended to have alarmed the Island, it being 
a time of war. I told the good-like People, for so 
they appear'd to me. That Peleg Slocum near Rhode 
Island, was Master of the Sloop, and that we came to 
visit them in the Love of God, if they would be willing 
to let us have some Meetings, amongst them. They 
behaved themselves very courteously towards us and 
said, They thought we might. 

" We then enquired for ISTathaniel Starbuck, who 
we understood was in some degree convinced of the 
Truth, and having Directions to his House, we went 
thither and I told him. We made bold to come to his 
House, and if he was free to receive us we would stay 
a little with him, but if not, we would go elsewhere ; 
for we heard he was a seeking religious Man and such 
chiefly we were come to visit ; 

" He said, We were very welcome. And by this 
Time came in his Mother Mary Starbuck who the 
Islanders esteemed as a Judge among them for little 



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of Moment was done there without her, as I under- 
stood. 

" At the first Sight of her it sprang in my Heart, 
To this Woman is the everlasting Love of God. I 
looked upon her as a Woman that bore some Sway in 
the Island, and so I said and that truly, We are come 
in the Love of God to visit you, if you are willing to 
let us have some Meetings among you : She said. She 
thought we might. . . . 

" The next Consideration was Where shall this meet- 
ing be ? She paused awhile and then said, I think at 
our House. 

" I from thence gathered she had an Husband, for I 
thought the Word our carried in it some Power be- 
sides her own, and I presently found he was with us : 
" I then made my Observation on him, and he appeared 
not a Man of mean Parts, but she so far exceeded him 
in Soundness of Judgment, Clearness of Understand- 
ing and an elegant Way of expressing herself, and that 
not in an affected Strain, but very natural to her, that 
it tended to lessen the Qualifications of her Husband. 

" The Meeting being agreed on and Care taken as 
to the Appointment of it, we parted, and I lay down to 
try if I could get any Sleep, . . . but Sleep vanished 
away from me, and I got up and walked to and fro in 
the Woods until the Meeting was mostly gathered. I 
was under a very great Load in my Spirit, but the 
Occasion of it was hid from me, but I saw it my Place 
to go to Meeting, the Order of which was such, in all 
the Parts thereof, I had not seen the like before ; the 
large and bright rubbed Room was set with suitable 
Seats or Chairs, the Glass Windows taken out of the 
Frames and many Chairs placed without very conve- 
niently, so, that I did not see anything awanting, ac- 



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cording to the Place, but something to stand on, for I 
was not free to set my Feet upon the fine Cane Chair, 
lest I should break it. 

" I am the more particular in this exact and exem- 
plary Order than in some other things, for the Seats 
both within and without Doors, were so placed that 
the Faces of the People were towards the Seats where 
the publick Friends sat, and when so set, they did not 
look or gaze in our Faces, as some I think are too 
apt to do, which in my Thoughts bespeaks an un- 
concerned Mind. The Meeting being thus gathered 
and Set down in this orderly and ample manner 
(although there were but very few bearing our Name 
in it) it was not long before the Mighty Power of the 
Lord began to work, and in it my Companion * espe- 
cially did appear in Testimony in the fore Part there- 
of. ... I sat a considerable Time in the Meeting be- 
fore I could see my Way clear to say anything, until 
the Lord's heavenly Power raised me and set me upon 
my Feet as if one had lifted me up, and what I had 
first in Commission to speak was in the words of 
Christ to Nicodemus, viz: Except a Man be born 
again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God : . . . 

" As I was thus opened, and delivering these Things 
with much more than I can remember, the great 
Woman I felt for most of an Hour together, fought 
and strove against the Testimony, sometimes looking 
up in my Face with a pale and then with a more ruddy 
Complexion ; but the Strength of the Truth increased, 
and the Lord's mighty Power began to shake the 
People within and without Doors ; but she who was 
looked upon as a Deborah by these People, was loth 

* James Bates, who was bom in Virginia. 



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to lose her outside Religion, or the Appearance thereof; 
When she could no longer contain, she submitted to 
the Power of Truth, and the Doctrines thereof, and 
lifted up her Voyce and wept. 

" Oh ! then the universal Cry and Brokenness of 
Heart and Tears was wonderful ! From this Time I do 
not remember one Word that I spoke in Testimony, 
it was enough that I could keep upon the true Bot- 
tom, and not be carried away with the Stream above 
my Measure. ... I remember Peleg Slocum (before 
mentioned) said after this Meeting, that the like he 
was never at, for he thought the Inhabitants of the 
Island were shaken, and most of the People convinced 
of the Truth. However a great Convincement there 
was that Day, Mary Starbuck was one of the Number, 
and in a short Time after received a publick Testi- 
mony, as did also her son Nathaniel." 

It would appear from a journal of Thomas Story, 
who was at Nantucket three years later, in 1704, that 
there was no settled meeting of Friends until some- 
time after his visit, wherein he felt it required of him 
to lay his concern before Mary Starbuck as the " in- 
strument to bring it about." 

Friends' Records of Nantucket Monthly Meeting 
state that it was established in 1708. 

Thomas Story says, " Before I proceed I think 
proper just to give a general Relation of the State of 
the People on the Island of Nantucket with respect to 
Religion at this Time. This small Island lies about 
20 Leagues from the main Land of New England, in- 
habited by a mixed People of Various Nations and 
some among them called christianized Indians, but 
no settled Teachers of any Kind. . . . 

" There was in this Island one Nathaniel Starbuck, 



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whose Wife was a wise discreet "Woman, well read in 
the Scriptures, and not attached unto any Sect, but in 
great Reputation throughout the Island for her Knowl- 
edge in Matters of Religion, and an Oracle among 
them on that Account, insomuch that they would not 
do any Thing without her Advice and Content there- 
in;" 

It would appear that several ministers of other re- 
ligious denominations had visited the island from time 
to time, and had desired a settled maintenance there. 
This was opposed by Mary Starbuck as " being con- 
trary to the practice of the Apostles and Primitives 
and the Nature of the Maintenance of a Gospel Minis- 
try, but she would consent so far, as that when any 
Preacher came among them, that they liked and staid 
some Time, and took Pains among them, every Family 
might give unto such what they pleased for the Help 
of themselves and their Families, if they had any, as 
Indian Corn (Maze) or other grain. Meal, Flesh, Fish 
or such other Provisions as they happened to have at 
the Time to spare, and Wool &c for Cloathing, but 
nothing certain or settled : For Ministers of Christ 
ought to travel abroad in the World in that Calling, 
and not to sit down in one place, unless they have 
Families to take care of and cannot leave them. 

" And Some Time before this John Kinsey, one of 
our Ministers from Philadelphia, had been to visit 
them with good Acceptance and had good Service for 
Truth among them, and had been instrumental in the 
Hand of the Lord to beget a good liking in them to 
the Way of Truth, but received nothing from any of 
them, (for that is not our Way) on account of His 
Ministry; And I finding a like Concern at this Time 
and accompanied by Several Friends of both Sexes, we 



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on the 13th Day of the Fifth Month,* about the tenth 
Hour in the Morning, set Sail for the said Island in a 
Shallop belonging to our Friend Peleg Slocum, before 
mentioned, which under divine Providence, he himself 
chiefly conducted, and landed there the next Morning 
about six. 

" At our landing we went up to the House of the 
"Widow Mary Gardner where, after some Refreshment 
had, came to us ]^athaniel Starbuck (Husband of Mary 
Starbuck before mentioned) and his son of the same 
name, and we proposed to them to have a Meeting 
that Day, but there being a court to sit then by Special 
Commission, ... we found it improper at that Time, 
and some of our Company went Home with Nathaniel 
Starbuck, the elder, and others with his Son, where 
we were kindly entertained, tho' Strangers, and they 
at that Time, not in the Profession of Truth with us. 

"On the 15th we had a Meeting at the House of 
Nathaniel Starbuck, the elder, which was pretty large 
and open, several of the People being tendered and 
generally satisfied with what they heard and felt of 
the Goodness and Mercy of God. 

" On the 16th being the First Day of the Week, we 
had another Meeting there, which was not so large as 
was expected, by reason of two Priests, an elderly Man 
and a young one, the first from the Isle of Showles, 
and the other from Martha's Vineyard, who had a 
Meeting near us, the former being come to try if he 
could obtain a settled Maintenance among that 
People. 

" And several being curious to hear this new 
Preacher in the Presbyterian Way, it made our Meet- 

*1704. 



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ing something less than otherwise it might have been, 
yet it was considerably large, very open and encour- 
aging, for the good Presence of the Lord was with us." 

" Many of the Inhabitants of this Island are con- 
vinced of the Truth of some Points of the Doctrine 
of Truth, and some of them have been reached by the 
divine Virtue and Power of it, but some other Things 
they do not yet see, and, if there were no Cross, would, 
in all Appearance, come generally under our Profes- 
sion ; some few are for a Priest and to allow him some 
Maintenance (for they walk not by Faith but Sight), 
but the Majority is against it. So that one of these 
not being able to effect his Purpose went Home in a 
few Days, but the other staid a little longer. . . . 

" This evening w^e ascended toward the upper Part 
of the Island to John Swains (one w^ho came to our 
Meetings and there was only one more, that is Ste- 
phen Hussie, in all that Island under our name)." 

* ***** * 

" But one night before we returned from this Island 
my sleep was taken from me under a concern of mind 
for the Settlement of a Meeting there ; (And though 
there were two Men under the Profession of Truth 
among them . . . the chief Instrument pointed to in 
my Thoughts, by the Truth, for this Service, when we 
should be gone was Mary Starbuck, before mentioned, 
to whom I made it known, and in the Opening and 
Mind of Truth laid a Charge upon her to endeavor to 
have a Meeting established in their Family once a 
week at least, to wait upon the Lord with all who were 
convinced of Truth in the ^Neighborhood, and in the 
Island as they had Conveniency. 

" This she received with Christian Gravity and it 
affected her much and became her Concern. 



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" Having first mentioned it to the Friends who were 
with me I proposed it likewise to her Children (her 
Husband being freely passive only in such Things, and 
naturally good temper'd) who were all discreet young 
Men and Women, most of them married and hopeful ; 
being all convinced of Truth, they were ready to 
embrace the Proposal. 

" Then I advised them to wait sincerely upon the 
Lord in such Meetings (for they had no instrumental 
Teachers) and assured them that I had a firm Confi- 
dence in the Lord that he would visit them by his 
Holy Spirit in them, in his own Time, if they were 
faithful, held on and did not faint or look back. 

" And accordingly, some time after we departed the 
Island, they did meet, and the Lord did visit them and 
gathered many unto himself, and they became a large 
and living Meeting in Him and several living and able 
Ministers were raised by the Lord in that Family, and 
of others, to the Honour of His own Arm, who is 
worthy forever." 

For many years the Society prospered, and its large 
meeting-houses were well filled. 

The experience of Nantucket has been a repetition 
of the history of the Society of Friends in many 
localities ; other religious denominations have attracted 
the younger people, and the older members, one by 
one, have passed from works to rewards until a hand- 
ful only remains of the once flourishing Society of 
Friends upon Nantucket. Of late, monthly meetings 
have been held alternately at Nantucket, Lynn, Provi- 
dence, and Centreville. 

In 1894 one meeting-house on the island was sold, 
and is at present the property of the Historical Society. 



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AN IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT. 

A Pennsylvanian writiug of Nantucket one hundred 
years after the settlement, having visited the island for 
the purpose of studying its manners and customs, 
says,— 

"... Here we have none but those which administer 
to the useful, to the necessary and to the indispensable 
comforts of life . . . The inhabitants abhor the very 
idea of expending in useless waste and vain luxuries 
the fruits of prosperous labor. . . . At home the ten- 
der minds of the children must be early struck with 
the gravity, the serious, though cheerful deportment 
of their parents; they are inured to a principle of 
subordination arising neither from sudden passions 
nor inconsistant pleasure. They are corrected with 
tenderness, nursed with most aifectionate care, clad 
with that decent plainness from which they observe 
their parents never to depart ; in short by the force of 
example, more than by precept, they learn to follow 
the steps of their parents and to despise ostentatious- 
ness as being sinful. They acquire a taste for that 
neatness for which their fathers are so conspicuous; 
they learn to be prudent and saving; the very tone 
of voice in which they are addressed establishes them 
in that softness of diction which ever after becomes 
habitual. If they are left with fortunes, they know how 
to save them, and how to enjoy them with moderation 
and decency; if they have none they know how to 
venture ; how to work and toil as their parents have 
done before them . . . As the sea excursions are often 
very long, the wives are necessarily obliged to transact 



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business, to settle accounts, and, in short, to rule and 
provide for their families. These circumstances being 
oft repeated give women the ability, as well as the taste 
for that kind of superintendency to which, by their 
prudence and good management, they seem to be in 
general very equal. This ripens their judgment and 
justly entitles them to a rank superior to other wives. 
To this dexterity in managing their husband's business 
whilst he is absent, the Il^antucket women unite a 
great deal of industry. They spin or cause to be spun, 
abundance of wool and flax, and would be forever dis- 
graced and looked upon as idlers, if all the family were 
not clad in good, neat and sufficient homespun cloth. 
First days are the only seasons when it is lawful for 
both sexes to exhibit garments of English manufacture, 
and even these are of the most moderate price and of 
the gravest colors," 

This being the judgment of an outsider surely was 
impartial, and all of Nantucket descent will be willing 
to accept the views of a writer so flattering, especially 
as we have no means of judging of those times except- 
ing by tradition. 

ISTearly one hundred and fifty added years have 
wrought many changes, and still we find a justifiable 
pride in all who claim descent from Mary Starbuck 
and her contemporaries. 

If " the evil that men do lives after them," the lives 
of the early settlers must have been exceptionally ex- 
emplary ; there seems to be little recorded discreditable 
to any of them. 

Necessity made them what they were ; there could 
be no idle hands among them ; they must work or 
they must starve ; and, at a very early date, the peace 
of a Quaker influence spread over them proportionate 

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to that of Colonial Philadelphia, and to-day may be 
heard even among those who belong to the so-called 
" world's people" " the Thee and the Thou of the 
Quaker." 



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DETAIL OF DESCENT FROM PROPRIETORS AND 
SETTLERS. 

MITCHELL FAMILY. 

Richard Mitchell, the first of the name of whom we 
have any record, lived at Briektown, Isle of Wight, and 
married Mary Wood. 

His son Richard, born in 1686, came to Rhode Island 
in 1708 and married Elizabeth Tripp ; he died in 1722. 

One of his descendants says of him, " The firmness 
with which Richard Mitchell adhered to the religious 
faith he early adopted, the honesty and integrity that 
Avere maintained in all his transactions, the tender, 
thoughtful care for the welfare of his wife and young 
family, are striking traits which are inherited by many 
of his descendants. 

"... He was blessed with a good understanding 
and sound judgment, and was capable of assisting and 
advising in matters of difficulty." 

Richard, of the next generation, married Mary 
Starbuck. 

Peleg Mitchell, Sr., married Lydia Cartwright. 

Peleg Mitchell, Sr., was son of 
Richard Mitchell and Mary Starbuck. 

Richard Mitchell was son of 

Richard Mitchell and Elizabeth Tripp. 

Richard Mitchell was son of 

Richard Mitchell and Mary Wood. 

Note. — Names in italics indicate that the ancestor so designated 
descends from one or more of the "Early Settlers," and that the 
detail of her ascent to said settler will in its turn be iriven. 



84 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 
Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 

Jethro Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

IS'athaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 

Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Lydia Cartwright was daughter of 
James Cartwright and Love Macy. 

James Cartwright was son of 

Hezidiah Cartwright and Abigail Brown. 

Hezidiah Cartwright was son of 

Sampson Cartwright and Bethiah Pratt. 

Love Macy was daughter of 

Francis Macy and Judith Coffin. 
Francis Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin. 
Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Bethiah Pratt was daughter of 
Joseph Pratt and Dorcas Folger. 



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Dorcas Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Judith Coffin was daughter of 

Richard Coffin and Ruth Banker. 
Richard Coffin was son of 

John Coffin, Esq., and Hope Gardner. 
John Coffin, Esq., was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Governor Thomas Gardiner. 

Ruth Bunker was daughter of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 

Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary 3Iacy. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Hope Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 



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Deborah Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starhuck. 
Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

Descendants from Peleg Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia 
Cartwright descend also from : 
Thomas Macy, twice. 
Peter Folger. 
James Coffin, twice. 
Lieutenant John Coffin. 
Tristram Coffin, four times. 
Edward Starbuck, three times. 
Richard Gardner, twice. 
Thomas Gardiner, twice. 

Mrs. Mary A. "Woodbridge, daughter of Judge Bray- 
ton and Love (Mitchell) Brayton, and grand-daughter 
of Peleg Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia (Cartwright) Mitch- 
ell, was a lineal descendant (on the maternal side) of 
all of the above-named settlers of Nantucket, 
and on the paternal of 

Christopher Hussey. 

She was the first president of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union of Ohio, and later recording secre- 
tary of the ISTational and World's Temperance Unions, 
and gave her time and her life (dying while in the ser- 
vice of the Union) to the cause which she had espoused. 

While she was an enthusiast, she was in no sense 
fanatic, being governed always by strong common 
sense, and a dignity which was nature's gift. 



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She travelled extensively, and often addressed large 
audiences, in addition to her close and ™°»«"^;*°"^ 
work with the pen in the discharge of her dut>es as 

secretary. 

Professor Maria Mitchell (see chapter on Peter Fol- 
ger) was another grand-daughter of Peleg Mitchell, Sr., 
and Lydia (Cartwright) Mitchell. 



RUSSELL FAMILY. 
John Russell, Jr., married Hepzibah Coleman. 

John Russell, Jr., was son of 

John Russell, Sr., and Ruth Starhuck. 

John Russell, Sr., was son of 

Daniel Russell and Deborah Macy. 

Ruth Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Copi. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr. was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr,, was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Macy was daughter of 
John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas" Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



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Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shatiuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 



Hepzibah Coleman was daughter of 

Barnabas Coleman and Rachel Hussey. 
Barnabas Coleman was son of 

John Coleman, Jr., and Priscilla Siarbuck. 
John Coleman, Jr., was son of 

John Coleman, Sr., and Joanna Folger. 
John Coleman, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Coleman. 

Rachel Hussey was daughter of 
Sylvanus Hussey and Abial Brown. 

Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Priscilla Starbuck was daughter of 
ISTathaniel Starbuck and Mary Cofin. 

IS'athamel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Joanna Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 



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Abial Bkown was daughter of 

John Brown and Eachel Gardner. 
John Brown was son of 

John Brown and Hannah HoharU 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Rachel Gardner was daughter of 

Captain John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 
John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner. 

Hannah Hobart was daughter of 
Rev. Peter Hobart, who was son of 
Edmund Hobart. 

Descendants of John Russell and Hepzibah (Cole- 
man) Russell descend also from : 
Edward Starbuck, twice. 
Thomas Macy. 
James Coffin. 

Tristram Coffin, three times. 
Richard Gardner. 
John Gardner. 
Thomas Gardiner, twice. 
Thomas Coleman. 
Christopher Hussey. 
Peter Folger. 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 
Rev. Peter Hobart, 
Edmund Hobart. 



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BARKER FAMILY. 

Robert Barker married 1 st, Jedidah Chase ; 2d, 
Sarah Gardner, widow of Hezikiah Gardner, and 
daughter of Abishai Folger and Sarah (Mayhew). 

Children of the first wife were : 
Judith Barker. 
Margaret Barker. 
Lydia Barker. 
Mary Barker. 
Robert Barker. 
James Barker. 
Francis Barker. 

Children of the second wife were : 
Jedidah Barker. 
Mary Barker. 
Abraham Barker. 
Sarah Barker. 
Isaac Barker. 
Jacob Barker, 

Robert Barker was son of 

Samuel Barker and Bethiah Folger. 
Samuel Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Judith Prence. 



Bethiah Folger was daughter of 
John Folger and Mary^ Barnard. 

John Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary (Morrell). 



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Judith Prence was daughter of 
Thomas Prence and Mary Collier. 

Mary Collier was daughter of 
William Collier. 

Mary^ Barnard was daughter of 

Nathaniel Barnard and Mary^ Barnard. 

Nathaniel Barnard was son of 

Thomas Barnard and Eleanor Barnard. 

Mary^ Barnard was daughter of 
Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 



Jedidah Chase, first wife of Robert Barker, was 
daughter of 

James Chase and Rachel Brown, 
James Chase was son of 

Lieutenant Isaac Chase and Mary Perkins. 

Rachel Brown was daughter of 

John Brown and Rachel Gardner. 
John Brown was son of 

Elder John Brown and Hannah Hobart. 

Rachel Gardner was daughter of 

Captain John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 
John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner. 

Hannah Hobart was daughter of 
Rev. Peter Hobart, who was son of 
Edmund Hobart. 



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Descendants from Robert Barker and Jedidah Chase 
descend also from : 
Peter Folger. 
Thomas Prence. 
William Collier. 
Thomas Barnard. 
Robert Barnard. 
John Gardner. 
Rev. Peter Hobart. 
Edmund Hobart. 
Thomas Gardiner. 
Lieutenant Isaac Chase. 

Sarah Gardner, widow of Hezikiah Gardner and 
second wife of Robert Barker, was daughter of 
Abishai Folger and Sarah Mayhew.* 

Descendants from Robert Barker and Sarah (Gard- 
ner) descend also from : 
Peter Folger, twice. 
Thomas Prence, 
William Collier. 
Thomas Barnard. 
Robert Barnard. 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr. 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr. 
Thomas Gardiner, twice. 
Richard Gardner, twice. 
James Coffin. 
Tristram Coffin. 
Thomas Macy. 

* For details see " Family of Lucretia Mott," p. 94. 
Note. — Members of the Barker family have intermarried with the 
families of Hazard, of Ehode Island ; Hopkins, of Baltimore ; 



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S"WAIN FAMILY. 
Francis Swain, Jr., married Lyclia Barker. ' 

Francis Swain, Jr., was son of I 

Francis Swain, Sr., and Mary Paddack. ' 

Francis Swain, Sr., was son of j 

John Swain, 3d, and Mary Swett. i 

John Swain, 3d, was son of j 

John Swain, 2d, and Experience Folger. ^ 
John Swain, 2d, was son of 

John Swayne, or Swain, 1st, and Mary "Wier. i 

Jolm Swain, 1st, was son of ! 

Richard Swain and Ehzabeth . j 

Mary Paddack was daughter of ' 

llTathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. j 

Ann Bunker was daughter of j 

William Bunker and Mary Maejj. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. i 

Experience Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger. 

Descendants from Francis Swain and Lydia Barker, 
descend also on the paternal side from : 
Peter Folger. 

Thomas Macy. ' 

John Swayne. 

Wharton, of Philadelphia ; Sigourney, of Boston ; and Baron Schon- ■■ 

berg, of Germany ; also with the families of Butler, of New York ; 
Mellor and Kirkbride, of Pennsylvania; Swain, Farnum, Newhall, 
Allen, Alden, Rotch, Farrar, and Ward, of New England. 



94 

On the Maternal side from : 
Lieutenant Isaac Chase. 
Peter Folger. 
Thomas Prence. 
William Collier. 
Thomas Barnard. 
Eobert Barnard. 

John Gardner. | 

Thomas Gardiner. 
Peter Hobart. 
Edmund Hobart. 



FAMILY OF LUCRBTIA MOTT. 
Thomas Coffin married Anna Folger. 

Thomas Coffin was son of 

Benjamin Coffin and Deborah Macy. 
Benjamin Coffin was son of 

Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer. 
Nathaniel Coffin was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Macy was daughter of 
Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin. 

Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



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Damaris Gayer was daughter of 
William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 

Dorcas Starbuck was daug-hter of 
Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Coffin was dauschter of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck, 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 
Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Anna Folger was daughter of 

William Folger and Ruth Coffin. 
William Folger was son of 

Abishai Folger and Sarah Mayhew. 
Abishai Folger was son of 

Nathan Folger and Sarah Church. 
Nathan Folger was son of 

Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner, 
Eleazer Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Ruth Coffin was daughter of 

Richard Coffin and Ruth Bunker. 
Richard Coffin was son of 

John Coffin, Esq., and Hope Gardner. 



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John Coffin, Esq., was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Mayhew was daugMer of 

Paine Mayhew and Mary Rankin. 
Paine Mayhew was son of 

Matthew Mayhew. 
Matthew Mayhew was son of 

Thomas Mayhew, Jr., and Jane Paine. 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., was son of 

Thomas Mayhew, Sr. 

Sarah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Ruth Bunker was daughter of 

Jonathan Bunker and EUzabeth Coffin, 

Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Hope Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and'Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 



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James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Descendants from Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger 
descend also from : 

Tristram Coffin, four times. 
James Coffin, three times. 
John Coffin, Esq. 
Peter Folger. 

Richard Gardner, three times. 
Thomas Gardiner, three times. 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr. 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr. 
Edward Starbuck, twice. 
Thomas Macy, twice. 
Lieutenant John Coffin. 

The children of Thomas and Anna (Folger) Coffin 
were : 

Sally Coffin, unmarried. 

Lucretia Coffin, married James Mott. 

Eliza Coffin, married Benjamin H. Yarnall,* of 
Philadelphia. 



* Descendants of Thomas Gardiner may be found in another 
branch of the Yarnall family. 

Edward Yarnall married Caroline R. Cope. 
Caroline R. Cope was daughter of 

Thomas Pim Cope aad Mary Drinker. 
Mary Drinker was daughter of 

John Drinker and Rachel Reynear. 
John Drinker was son of 

Henry Drinker and Mary Gottier. 
Henry Drinker was son of 

Joseph Drinker and Mary Janney. 
Joseph Drinker was son of 

John Drinker, of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Ruth Balch. 

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Mary Coffin, married Solomon Temple. 
Martha Coffin, married Peter Pelham, of Kentucky, 
a captain in the United States army. 

Thomas M. Coffin, unmarried (the only son). 



FAMILIES OF THOMAS EARLE AND 
JOHN MILTON EARLE. 

Uriel Hussey married Phebe Folger. 
Tristram Hussey married Sarah Folger. 

Uriel Hussey was son of George Hussey. 
Tristram Hussey was son of Batchelder or Bachiler 
Hussey. 

George Hussey * and Batchelder Hussey were 
brothers, and sons of 

Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuek. 
Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Ruth Balch was daughter of 

Benjamin Balch, the first child born in the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony. 
Benjamin Balch married Sarah Gardiner, daughter of Thomas 
Gardiner. Benjamin Balch, of Salem, was son of John and 
Anice Balch, a Somersetshire family which dated from the 
Conquest. Benjamin Balch was living in 1706. 
* George Hussey's wife was Deborah Paddack, a descendant of 
Zechariah Paddack, who married Deborah Sears, of Yarmouth, a 
daughter of Richard Sears. Richard Sears married Dorothy 
Thatcher. 



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Stephen Hiissey was son of 
Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

ISTathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

JSTathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Dinah Coffin was dauo-hter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Phebe Folger, i . . , 

Sarah Fol<?er h^^^^^^^' ^^^^® sisters also of Anna 

Folger (the mother of Lucretia Mott), and their de- 
scent from early settlers of Nantucket, being identical 
with that of Anna Folger, will be found on a previous 
page, under " Family of Lucretia Mott." 

Uriel Hussey's daughter Mary married Thomas 
Earle; Tristram Hussey's daughter Sarah married 
John Milton Earle. 

Descendants from them descend also from : 

Edward Starbuck. 

Christopher Hussey. 

Stephen Hussey, 



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Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 
Peter Folger. 
James Coffin, twice. 
Tristram Coffin, twice. 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr. 
Thomas Majhew, Jr. 
Richard Gardner, twice. 
Thomas Gardiner, twice. 
Thomas Macy. 

Children of Thomas and Mary Earle have inter- 
married with the families of Yan Leer, of Chester 
County; Earle, of Massachusetts; Gibbons, of Penn- 
sylvania ; and White, of Londonderry, Ireland. 



S"W1FT FAMILY. 

Dr. Paul Swift married Dorcas Gardner. 

Dorcas Gardner was daughter of 

Zenas Gardner and Susanna Hussey. 
Zenas Gardner was son of 

Paul Gardner and Rachel Starbuck. 
Paul Gardner was son of 

Solomon Gardner and Anna Coffin. 
Solomon Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner, 2d, and Mary Austin. 
Richard Gardner, 2d, was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner. 



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Susanna Hussey was daughter of 

George Hussey and Deborah Paddack. 
George Hussey was son of 

Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 
Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder.'^ 

Rachel Starbuck was daughter of 

Thomas Starbuck and Rachel Allen. 
Thomas Starbuck was son of 

Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 
Jethro Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Anna Coffin was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin and Mary Bunker. 
Stephen Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 
Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Paddack was daughter of 
Daniel Paddack and Susanna Gorham. 

Susanna Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 



* Various spellings found in old records. 



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Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 
James Gardner and Mary Starbuck. 

James Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Governor Thomas Gardiner. 

Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

I^athaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Kathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

I^athaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Theodate Batciielder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Rachel Allen was daughter of 
Edward Allen and Ann Coleman. 

Ann Coleman was daughter of 
Joseph Coleman and Ann Bunker. 

Joseph Coleman was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 



Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

"William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 
Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens (occurs 
three times). 



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Marv Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Daniel Paddack was son of 

Nathaniel Paddack and Ann Ban Jeer. 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy and grand- 
daughter of Thomas Macv. 

Descendants of Dr. Paul Swift and Dorcas Cardner 
descend also from : 

Richard Gardner, twice. 
Governor Thomas Gardiner, twice. 
Stephen Hussey. 
Christopher Hussey. 
Edward Starbuck, live times. 
Tristram Coffin, four times. 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 
Thomas Coleman. 
Thomas Macy. 
James Coffin. 

Paul Swift was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, 
1794. He was for some time a physician at Nantucket, 
where he is still remembered and respected. 

In 1841 he moved to Philadelphia, where he prac- 
tised medicine until 1853, when he was appointed u 



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teacher at Haverford School (soon after made a col- 
lege); he remained there until 1865, when he resigned 
on account of ill health. He died in Philadelphia in 
1866. 

Daughters of Dr. Paul Swift and Dorcas (Gardner) 
Swift were : 

Mary, married, 1846, Mr. Edwin Lamson, of Boston. 

Katharine, married 1st, Dr. Marcus A. Moore, of 
Boston; 2d, Robert Wharton. 

Susan, married Mr. Albert H. Franciscus, of Phila- 
delphia. 

Elizabeth, married Mr. John E. Phillips, of Balti- 
more.* 



ROTCH FAMILY. 

William Rotch married Elizabeth Barney, of N'an- 
tucket. 

William Rotch was born on Nantucket, 1734, and 
died in New Bedford, 1828. 
He was son of 

Joseph Rotch and Love Macy. 
Joseph Rotch was son of 

William Rotch. 



* John Howland and John Tilley, " Mayflower" passengers, are 
among the ancestors of this family ; John Howland was a soldier 
in the Plymouth Military Company in 1643, and filled many other 
important offices. 



105 

Love Macy was daughter of 

Thomas^ Macy and Deborah Coffin. 

Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 
Edavard Starbuck. 



Elizabeth Barney was daughter of 

Benjamin Barney and Lydia Starbuck. 
Lydia Starbuck was daughter of 

Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 
Jethro Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



106 

Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 
Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Eeynolds. 

Descendants from William and Elizabeth (Barney) 
Rotch * descend also from : 



* Elizabeth Kotch, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Barney) 
Kotch, married Samuel Kodman, of Newport. 

Samuel Rodman's Sister Anna married Thomas Hazzard. Eliza- 
beth Hazzard (b. 1783), daughter of Thomas and Anna (Rodman) 
Hazzard, married Jacob Barker, son of Robert Barker. 

Mrs. Eliza Earrar, wife of Professor Farrar, was a daughter of 
Benjamin Rotch, of Nantucket. Benjamin Rotch married a Barker, 
also of Nantucket. 

Joseph Rotch was born in Salisbury, England, May 6, 1704, and 
went to Nantucket, subsequently to New Bedford, where he died, 
November 24, 1784. 

He inaugurated the business of whale fishery so successfully 
carried on by his son. 

When the Revolutionary War broke out the whaling business was 
practically ruined, and William Rotch went to England, hoping to 
pursue the business there, but, meeting with little encouragement, 
he finally went to Dunkirk, France, where special privileges from 
the French government were granted him. 

He carried on the business there until 1794, when he returned to 
Nantucket, and after a year's residence on the island, went to New 
Bedford and resided there until his death in 1828. His great-grand- 
son, now living in New Bedford, says, " He was a consistent Friend 
and had the courage of his convictions. I have heard my great- 
aunt Mary Rotch tell the following story : 

" He was at Dunkirk at the time of the Napoleonic Wars ; one 
day there came news of the great victory of Austerlitz. 

" Municipal orders were issued commanding every one to illumi- 
nate in honor of the event. My grpat grandfather was true to his 

principles and refused to obey the order, though every house in the 
street was a blaze of light. 

"The good mayor of the city was very friendly with my grand- 
father and called to expostulate and if possible pursuade him — fear- 



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Thomas Macy, 

Lieutenant John Coffin. 

Tristram Coffin, twice. 

Richard Gardner. 

Thomas Gardiner. 

Edward Starbuck, three times. 



BUNKER FAMILY. 
Nathan^ Bunker married Elizabeth Thorne Clement. 

Nathan^ Bunker was son of 

Nathan Bunker and Hepsibeth Pinkham. 
[N'athan^ Bunker was son of 

Shubael Bunker and Lydia Paddack. 
Shubael Bunker was son of 

Zacariah Bunker and Desire Gorham. 

ing danger from the mob in those excited times, but Mr. Rotch re- 
fused. 

" Well, said the Mayor finally, the street belongs to the city, and 
I will do what I can, so he sent and procured two large lanterns, and 
had them placed directly in front of the house, and detailed some 
Gendarmes to walk up and down in front and explain to the people 
that those who lived there were not enemies, but good friendly people, 
who did not believe in war. 

" His daughter Elizabeth Rotch was a remarlcable woman, living 
to the advanced age of ninety-nine, and when over ninety had never 
used the back of a chair, but sat erect without support." 

William Rotch is thus described by this grandson, who saw him 
when he himself was only four j-ears of age : " He was a tall vener- 
able man with white hair and beard, and came into the room leaning 
on the back of a large arm chair on castors, attended by his black 
servant." 



108 

Zacariah Bunker was son of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Jonathan Bunker was son of 

"William Bunker and Mary Macy. 

Lydia Paddack was daughter of 

Daniel Paddack and Susanna Gorham. 

Daniel Paddack was son of 

I^athaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker, 

Desire Gorham was daughter of 
Shubael Gorham and Puella Hassey. 

Puella Hussey was daughter of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Susanna Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 
Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 

James Gardner and Mary Sfarbuck. 
James Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner. 



109 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 
William Bunker and Mary Macy. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Descendants from Nathan Bunker and Ehzabeth 
Thorne Clement descend also from : 
Tristram Coffin, Sr., twice. 
James Coffin. 
Thomas Macy, twice. 
Richard Gardner. 
Thomas Gardiner. 
Stephen Hussey. 
Christopher Hussey. 
Edward Starbuck. 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 



Note -Descendants of Nathan Bunker descend from George and 
Jane Godfrey Bunker three times ; this family was of Huguenot ori- 
gin The name formerly was Bon Coeur. Upon the ancestral records 
of this family we find also John Tilley and John Rowland, signers of 
the Mayflower Compact, adding another link between Plymouth 
and Nantucket in colonial times. 

Nathan Bunker married after the manner of Friends ; he was of 
the prominent shipping firm of Lea & Banker, who owned a large 
amount of shipping in Philadelphia at the beginning of this century. 
His daughter, Mary Clement Bunker, was mother of Captain Charles 
Bunker Dahlgren, of the United States navy. 



110 



WING AND HATHAWAY CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET. 

Sylvaniis Hussey, Jr., married 1st, Alice Gray; 2d, 
Lydia Wing.* 



Sylvanus Hussey, Jr., was son of 

Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 
Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



* Lydia Wing descended from John Wing, whose name appears in 
1637 among associates to form the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. 

John Wing and his wife, Deborah Batchelder (daughter of Kev. 
Stephen Batchelder), sailed on the "William and Francis" from 
London, March 9, 1632, and arrived in Boston June 5, 1632. 



Ill 

Lydia Wing was daughter of 

Samuel Wing and Hepzibah Hathaway. 
Hepzibah Hathaway was daughter of 

Thomas Hathaway and Hepzibah Starbuck. 
Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Descendants of Sylvanus Hussey and Lydia Wing 
(his second wife) descend also on the paternal side 

from : 

Christopher Hussey. 
Stephen Hussey. 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 
Edward Starbuck. 
Tristram Coffin. 
James Coffin. 
On the maternal side from : 
Edward Starbuck. 
Tristram Coffin. 



Abigail, another daughter of Samuel and Hepzibah 
(Hathaway) Wing, married Paul Wing, son of Zac- 
cheus and Content (Swift) Wing. Hepzibah, daughter 
of Paul and Abigail AVing, married Estes Newhall, 
whose son Paul Wing Newhall married Hannah John- 
son- members of this family descend from Edward 



112 

Starbuck and Tristram Coffin. Paul "Wing and Han- 
nah (Johnson) ISTewhall settled in Philadelphia.* 



COGGESHALL CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET. 
Job Coggeshall married Deborah Starbuck. 

Deborah Starbuck was daughter of 

Tristram Starbuck and Deborah Coffin. 
Tristram Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffiri. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 
Samuel Coffin and Miriam Gardner. 

Samuel Coffin was son of 
Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 

John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



* A great-grand-daughter of Thomas and Hepzibah Hathaway 
married Henry A. Wisner, grandson of Henry Wisner, of Orange 
County, New York. The last named was a member of the Conti- 
nental Congress in 1776, voted for the Declaration of Independence, 
and was subsequently a member of the State Committee of Safety of 
New York, and of the convention which formed the Constitution of 
New York in 1777. 



113 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Miriam Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Mary Austin.* 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Deborah Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 
Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Descendants of Job Coggeshall and Deborah Star 
buck descend also from : 

Edward Starbuck, three times. 
Tristram Coffin, three times. 
Lieutenant John Coffin. 
James Coffin. 
Richard Gardner. 
Thomas Gardiner. 



* Mary Austin was a sister of Deborah Austin. 

Note. — Deborah Coggeshall, daughter of Job and Deborah (Star- 
buck) Coggeshall, married, as second wife, Paul Macy, a descend- 
ant of Thomas Macy. Other members of this family have inter- 
married with the families of Walter and Janney. 



114 



BUFFUM CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET. 

David Biitfum, 1st, married Hepzibah Mitc']iell,l)oth 
of Newport. 

Hepzibah Mitchell was daughter of 
James Mitchell and Ann Folger. 

Ann Folger was daughter of 

Jethro Folger and Mary Starhuck. 
Jethro Folger was son of 

John Folger and Mary Barnard. 
John Folger was son of 

Peter Folger. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary^ Barnard was daughter of 

Nathaniel Barnard and Mary^ Barnard. 

Nathaniel Barnard was son of 

Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



115 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary^ Barnard was daughter of 
Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 

Descendants of David Buffum * and Hepzibah Mitch- 
ell t descend also from : 
Tristram Coffin, twice. 
James Coffin. 
Thomas Barnard. 
Robert Barnard. 
Edward Starbuck. 
Peter Folger. 

* Members of this Buffum family married into the same Barker 
family to which the Nantucket Barkers belong, having descended 
from William Collier and Thomas Prence through Prince Barker, 
who was son of Isaac Barker and Elizabeth Slocum, and grandson of 
Isaac Barker and Judith, daughter of Governor Prence. Elizabeth 
Slocum was daughter of Peleg Slocum, who went with John Richard- 
son to Nantucket in 1701, and with Thomas Story in 1704. Peleg 
Slocum 's wife was Mary Holder, daughter of Christopher Holder, 
the Quaker, who in 1659 was sentenced in Boston to banishment, on 
pain of death. See Besse's History. 

t James Mitchell, father of Hepzibah Mitchell, was son of Richard 
Mitchell and Elizabeth Tripp, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, from 
whom, also, descend the Nantucket Mitchells. 



116 



STANTON CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET. 

Edwin Macy Stanton was son of 
David Stanton and Lucy Norman. 

David Stanton was son of 

Benjamin Stanton and Abigail Macy. 

Abigail Macy was daughter of 

David Macy and Dinah Gardner. 
David Macy was son of 

John Macy, Jr., and Judith Worth. 
John Macy, Jr., was son of 

John Macy, Sr., and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Dinah Gardner was daughter of 

Solomon Gardner and Anna Coffin. 
Solomon Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner, Jr., and Mary Austin. 
Richard Gardner, Jr., was son of 

Richard Gardner, Sr., and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Gardiner. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 
Thomas Gardiner. 

Anna Coffin was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin and Mary Bunker. 

Stephen Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



117 

Mary Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 
Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Therefore Edwin Macy Stanton and all descendants 
from Benjamin Stanton and Abigail Macy descend also 
from : 

Thomas Macy. 

Richard Gardner, twice. 

Thomas Gardiner, twice. 

Tristram Coffin. 

Edward Starbuck. 

Note. — Zaccheus Macy, son of Zaccheus and seventh in descent 
from Thomas Macy, married Sarah, daughter of Giles E. and 
Hannah (Beebe) Stanton, of New Bedford. 



APPENDIX. 



Adams, Alexander, m. Mary Coffin.* (Savage, vol. i. p. 8, 1652.) 

Barnard, Nathaniel, son Thomas and Eleanor Barnard, m. Mary 
Barnard, dau. Kobert and Joanna Barnard. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Barnard, Nathaniel, Jr., ?«. Judith Folger, widow Peter Folger' 
and dau. Stephen Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Barnard, Nathaniel, 3d, m. Hepzibah Hussey, dau. Sylvanus 
Hu.ssey. (Ibid.) 

Barney, Benjamin, son Jonathan and Sarah Barney, Khode Island, 
m. 1st, Lydia Starbuck, dau. Jethro and Dorcas Starbuck (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Keeords, Bk. I. p. 23, 1722) ; 2d, Huldah Bunker, 
widow Simeon and dau. Bachilor Hussey (Ibid., p. 221). 

Barney, Benjamin, son Benjamin and Lydia Barney, in. Jemima 
Jenkins, dau. Peter and Abigail Jenkins. (Ibid., p. 217, 1753.) 

Barney, Jonathan, m. Abial Coffin, dau. Barnabas Coffin. (W. C. 
Folger MSS.) 

Barney, Jacob, of Newport, m. Dorcas Barnard, dau. Nathaniel 
and Dorcas Barnard. (Nantucket Town Eecords, Bk. I. p. 34, 1726.) 

Barney, Phebe, dau. Benjamin and Huldah (Bunker) Barney, m. 
Joseph Swain. ("W. C. Folger MSS., Barney Family.) 

Barker, Isaac, m. Judith Prence, dau. Gov. Thomas Prence. 
("Winsor's History of Duxbury, 1665.) 

Barker, Samuel, son Isaac and Judith Barker, m. Bethiah Folger, 
dau. John and Mary (Barnard) Folger. (Savage, vol. i. p. 115, 1718.) 

Barker, Isaac, son Isaac and Judith (Prence) Barker, m. Elizabeth 
Slocum, dau. Peleg Slocum and Mary Holder. (Family Keeords, 
1707.) 

Barker, Robert, son Samuel and Bethiah (Folger) Barker, m. 1st, 
Jedidah Chase, dau. James and grand-daughter Lieutenant Isaac 
Chase (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 49, 1744) ; 2d, Sarah Gard- 
ner, widow Hezikiah Gardner, and dau. Abishai and Dinah (Star- 
buck) Folger (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

* Mary (Coffin) Adams was a sister of Tristram Coffin, Sr. Ben- 
jamin Franklin Folger, genealogist, says she had four children, and 
from them descended the illustrious family of that name in Massa- 
chusetts. 

119 



120 

Children of Egbert Barker and First Wife, Jedidah 
Chase. 

Barker, Judith, m. Shubael Gardner, son Reuben Gardner. (W. C. 
Folger MSS.) 

Barker, Margaret, m. 1st, Paul Hussey, son George and Elizabeth 
Hussey (Ibid., p. 185, 1764) ; 2d, Thomas Jenkins (Ibid., 1808). 

Barker, Lydia, m. Francis Swain. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 
1767.) 

Barker, Mary, icmn. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Barker, Robert. (Ibid.) 

Barker, James, m. Sarah Coffin, dau. William and Lydia (Gard- 
ner) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Francis, m. Deborah Russell. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 120, 1776.) 

Children of Robert Barker and Second Wife, Sarah 
Gardner. 

Barker, Jedidah, m. William Macy, son William and Mary (Bar- 
ney) Macy. (Macy Genealogy, p. 121, 1807.) 

Barker, Mary, m. 1st, Walter Allen (W. C. Folger MSS., 1813) ; 
2d, Moses Farnum (Ibid., 1847). 

Barker, Abraham, m. Priscilla Hopkins, of Baltimore. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Sarah, m. Andrew Sigourney, of Boston. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Isaac, unm. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Jacob,* m. Elizabeth Hazzard, dau. Thomas and Anna 
Hazzard. (Gen. of Hodman Family, No. 331, pp. 73, 74, 1801.) 

* Children of Jacob Barker and Elizabeth Hazzard. 

Barker, Robert, died in infancy. 

Barker, Kobert, unm. 

Barker, Thomas, mnn. 

Barker, William, m. Jeanette James. 

Barker, Andrew Sigourney, unm. 

Barker, Anna Hazzard, in. Samuel Gray Ward. 

Barker, Jacob, untn. 

Barker, Elizabeth Hazzard, ni. 1st, Baldwin Brower ; 2d, William 
T. Van Zandt; 3d, John McCaulis. 

Barker, Sarah, m. 1st, John C. Harrison ; 2d, William H. Hunt. 

Barker, Abraham, m. 1st, Sarah Wharton, 1842; 2d, Katharine 
Crane, 1871. 

Barker, Mary, died young. 

Barker, John W., died young. 



121 

Brown, John (Elder), m. Hannah Hobart, dau. Peter Hobart.* 
(Savage, vol. i. p. 271, 1658.) 

Brown, John, m. Kachel Gardner, dan. Capt. John Gardner. 
(Ibid., vol. ii. p. 288.) 

Brock, John, m. Merib Mitchell. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 148, 1800.) 

Buffum, David, Sr., m. Hepzibah Mitchell. (Family Records, 
1784.) 

Bunker, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Look, of Tisbury. (W. C. Folger, 
Bunker Family, p. 60, 1646.) 

Bunker, William, m. Mary Macy, dau. Thomas Macy and Sarah 
Hopcot. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 1, 1669.) 

Bunker, Nathan, ni. Elizabeth Thorne Clement. (Family Record, 
1813.) 

Bunker, Nathan, m. Hepsibeth Pinkham. (Ibid., 1781.) 

Bunker, Shubael, m. Lydia Paddack. (Ibid., 1751.) 

Bunker, Zachariah, m. Desire Gorham (by John Coffin, justice of 
peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 23, 1728.) 

Bunker, Jonathan, son William Bunker, m. Elizabeth Coffin. 
(J. Osborne Austin's "One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," 
p. 49.) 

Bunker, George, son William Bunker, m. Deborah Coffin. (Ibid., 
1695.) 

Bunker, Ann, daughter William Bunker, m. Joseph Coleman. 
(Ibid.) 

Butler, William, ni. Eunice Coffin.f (Savage, vol. i. p. 8.) 

Butler, William, m. Mary Jenkins (by Josiah Coffin, justice of 
peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 56, 1747.) 

Cartwright, Sampson, m. Bethiah Pratt. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Cartwright, Hezidiah, m. Abigail Brown (by John Coffin, justice 
of peace). (Nantucket Town Records Bk. I. p. 28, 1731-32.) 

Cartwright, James, m. Love Macy (second wife). (Records of 
Friends, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1759.) 

Coffin, Tristram, Sr.,J m. Dionis Stevens. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. 
Reg., vol. xxiv. pp. 151, 152, 1630.) 



* See pages 58, 59, for Peter Hobart. 

f Eunice Coffin was sister of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 

X Benjamin Franklin Folger, genealogist, says, "It is worthy of 
note at that period, that neither Tristram Coffin nor any of his 
children married a second time." 



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Children of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 

Coffin, Peter, m. Abigail Starbuck. (" One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," p. 67, about 1656.) 

Coffin, Tristram, Jr., m. Judith Somerbj' (widow Henry), dau. 
Edmund Greenleaf. (Ibid., 1652.) 

Coffin, Elizabeth, m. Stephen Greenleaf. (Ibid., 1651.) 

Coffin, James, m. Mary Severance, dau. of John Severance, of 
Salisbury, Massachusetts. (Ibid., p. 68, 1663.) 

Coffin, Mary, m. Nathaniel Starbuck. (Ibid., p. 221, 1662.) 

Coffin, John (Lieutenant), m. Deborah Austin. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv. pp. 151, 152, 1668.) 

Coffin, Stephen, m. Mary Bunker. (" Ye Coffin Family," by 
Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 58, 1668-69.) 



Children of Peter Coffin. 

Coffin, Abigail, m. Daniel Davidson, of Ipswich. ("Ye Coffin 
Family," by Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 53, 1673.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel and Mary 
Starbuck. (Ibid., 1682.) 

Coffin, Jethro, m. Mary Gardner, dau. John Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Tristram, m. Deborah Colcord. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Eobert, m. Joanna Dyer (widow), dau. Hon. John Gilman, 
of Exeter. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Edward, m. Anna Gardner, dau. Capt. John and Priscilla 
Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Elizabeth, m. Col. John Gilman, of Exeter. (Ibid., 1698.) 



Children of Tristram Coffin, Jr. 

Coffin, Judith, m. John Sanborn, of Hampton, New Hampshire. 
(" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 54, 1674.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. Joseph Knight. (Ibid., 1677.) 

Coffin, Mary, m. Joseph Little. (Ibid., 1677.) 

Coffin, James, m, Florence Hooke. (Ibid., 1685.) 

Coffin, John, unm. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Lydia, m. 1st, Moses Little (Ibid.) ; 2d, John Pike (Ibid., 
1695). 

Coffin, Enoch, rinni. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Stephen, tn. Sarah Atkinson. (Ibid., 1685.) 



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Children of James Coffin. 

Coffin, Mary, m. 1st, Kichard Pinkhani, of Portsmouth (came from 
Isle of Wight) (" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 56) ; 
2d, James Gardner, son Kichard and Sarah Gardner (Ibid.). 

Coffin, James, Jr., m. 1st, Love Gardner, dau. Kichard and Sarah ; 
2d, Kuth Gardner, dau. John and Priscilla Gardner (Ibid., 1692). 

Coffin, Nathaniel, m. Damaris Gayer, dau. William and Dorcas 
Gayer. (Town Kecords of Nantucket, Bk. I. p. 5, 1692.) 

Coffin, John, m. Hope Gardner, dau. Kichard and Sarah Gardner. 
(Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 56, 1692.) 

Coffin, Dinah, in. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 229, 
1690.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. George Bunker, son William and Mary Bun- 
ker. (Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 56, 1695.) 

Coffin, Ebenezer, m. Eleanor Barnard, dau. Nathaniel Barnard. 
(Ibid., 1700.) 

Coffin, Joseph, m. Bethiah Macy, dau. John Macy. (Ibid., 1719.) 

Coffin, Benjamin, unm. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Ruth, m. Joseph Gardner, son Kichard^ Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Abigail, m. Nathaniel Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Experience, imm. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Jonathan, m. Hepzibah Harker, dau. Ebenezer Harker. 
(Ibid.) 

Coffin, Elizabeth, m. 1st, Jonathan Bunker, son William and Mary 
Bunker (Ibid.) ; 2d, Thomas Clark. 



Children of Lieutenant John Coffin. 

Coffin, Lydia, m. 1st, John Logan ; 2d, John Draper; 3d, Thomas 
Thaxter, of Hingham. ("Ye Coffin Family," by Allen Coffin, 
LL.B., p. 58.) 

Coffin, Peter, ?M. 1st, Christian Condy (Ibid.) ; 2d, Hope Macy, dau. 
Joseph and Bethiah (Macy) Gardner. 

Coffin, Enoch, m. Beulah Eddy. (Ibid., 1700.) 

Coffin, Samuel, m. Miriam Gardner, dau. Kichard^ Gardner. - 
(Ibid., 1705.) 

Coffin, Hannah, m. Benjamin Gardner, son Kichard" Gardner. 
(Ibid.) 

Coffin, Tristram, m. Mary Bunker, dau. William Bunker. (Ibid., 
1714.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. Thomas Macy^, son John Macy. (Ibid., 1708.) 



124 

Children of Stephen Coffin. 

Coffin, DioTiis, m. Jacob Norton. (" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen 
Coffin, LL.B., p. 58.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. , in Boston. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Stephen, Jr., m. Experience Look, dau. Thomas Look. 
(Nantucket Town Kecords, Bk. I. p. 8, 1693.) 

Coffin, Judith, m. 1st, Peter^ Folger, (d. 1707) son Eleazer Folger 
(Allen Coffin, LL.B.) ; 2d, Nathaniel Barnard, son Nathaniel Bar- 
nard (Ibid., p. 58, 1718) ; 3d, Stephen Wilcox (W. C. Folger MSS., 
p. 7, 1722). 

Coffin, Susanna, m. Peleg Bunker, son William Bunker. (Allen 
Coffin, LL.B., p. 58.) 

Coffin, Mehitable, m. Armstrong Smith. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Anna, m. Solomon Gardner, son Puchard^ Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Hepzibah, m. Samuel Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Paul, m. Mary Allen, dau. Edward Allen. (Ibid., 1729.) 

Coffin, Eichard, m. Euth Bunker. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Eeg., 
vol. xxiv. p. 306.) 

Coffin, Ebenezer, m. Eleanor Barnard. (" One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Familes," p. G8, 1700.) 

Coffin, Thomas, m. Anna Folger. ("Life and Letters of James 
and Lucretia Mott," by Anna Davis Hallowell ; also B. F. Folger, 
genealogist, 1779.) 

Children of Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. 

Coffin, Lucretia, m. James Mott, of Long Island. ("Life and 
Letters of James and Lucretia Mott," by Anna Davis Hallowell, 

1811.) 

Coffin, Eliza, m. Benjamin H. Yarnall, of Philadelphia. (Ibid., 

1814.) 

Coffin, Mary, m. Solomon Temple. (Ibid, 1824.) 

Coffin, Martha, m. Peter Pelham, of Kentucky. (Ibid., 1824.) 

Coffin, Thomas, unm. 

Coffin, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' 
Eecords, 1757.) 

Coggeshall, Joshua, m. 1st, Joan West (Savage vol. i. p. 422) ; 
2d, Eebecca Russell (1677). 

Coggeshall, Job, ??i., among Friends, Deborah Star buck. (W. C. 
Folger MSS., Starbuck Family, p. 61.) 



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Coggeshall, Caleb, m. Elizabeth Hosier. (Family Records, 1793.) 
Coggeshall, Giles Hosier, ?«. Marianna Walters. (Ibid., 1833.) 

Coleman, Thomas,* m. 1st, Susanna, d. 1643 ; 2d, Mary (widow 
Edmund Johnson) ; 3d, Margery Asbourne. (Joshua Coffin's " His- 
tory of Newbury," Appendix, p. 298, 1648.) 

Coleman, John, 1st, son Thomas Coleman, m. Joanna Eolger. 
(William C. Folger MSS.) 

Coleman, John, 2d, son John Coleman, 1st, m. Priscilla Starbuck. 
("One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 220, 1694.) 

Coleman, Dorcas, f m. John Tillotson. (Joshua Coffin's "History 
of Newbury," Appendix, p. 298.) 

Coleman, Jeremiah, vi. Sarah Pratt (by William Worth, justice 
of Peace). (Nantucket Town Pvecords, Bk. I. p. 10, 1714-15.) 

Coleman, Andrew, m. Lydia Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., 1791.) 

Coleman, Enoch, m. Mary Myrick. (Ibid., 1748.) 

Coleman, Barnabas, son John Coleman, 2d, vi. Rachel Hussey. 
(Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I. p. 62, 1733.) 

Children of Barnabas Coleman and Rachel Hussey. 

Coleman, Sarah, m. George Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., 1752.) 

Coleman, Abial, m. Timothy Folger. (Ibid., 1753.) 

Coleman, Rebecca, m. Nathaniel Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Coleman, Judith, m. Andrew Worth. (Ibid.) 

Coleman, Seth, m. Deborah Swain, dau. Reuben Swain. (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Records, 1768.) 

Coleman, Sylvanus, m. 1st, Mary Swift (Ibid., 1768) ; 2d, Phebe 
Brown (1779). 

Coleman, William, m. 1st, Abigail Barnard (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Bk. II. p. 109, 1770) ; 2d, Hepzibah Wing (Sandwich Friends' 
Records, 1780). 

Coleman, Barnabas, m. 1st, Abial Clark, by Caleb Bunker, justice 
of peace (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 106, 1776) ; 2d, Sarah 
Morse (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Coleman, Hepzibah, vk John Russell. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1777). 

* Children of Thomas Coleman were as follows : First wife, Su- 
sanna, had Benjamin, b. 1640; Joseph, b. 1642. Second wife, Mary, 
had Isaac, Joanna, and John. Third wife, Margery, had one son, 
Tobias Coleman, 

f Dorcas Coleman was a sister of Thomas Coleman, the proprietor. 



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Coleman, Elizabeth, m. Abishai Polger, Jr. (W. C. Folger MSS., 
1772.) 

Coleman, Obed, m. Elizabeth Swain. (Nantucket Friends' Kecords, 
1780.) 

Cornell, William, m. Lydia Hussey. (Nantucket Town Kecords, 
Bk. I. p. 145, 1799.) 

Earle, Thomas, m. Mary Hussey. (W. C. Folger, p. 184, 1820.) 

Earle, John Milton, m. Sarah Hussey. (Ibid., 1821.) 

Folger, John, m. Meribah Gibbs (probably second wife). (N. E. 
Hist, and Gen. Eeg., vol. xvi., Folger Family.) 

Folger, Peter, m. Mary Morrell. (Savage, vol. ii. pp. 177,178.) 



Children of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Folger, Eleazer, m. Sarah Gardner, dau. Eichard and Sarah 
(Shattuck) Gardner. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 177, 1671.) 

Folger, Joanna, m. .John Coleman. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Bethiah, vi. John Barnard, son Robert Barnard. (Ibid., 
1669.) 

Folger, Dorcas, w Joseph Pratt. (Ibid., 1675 ) 

Folger, Patience, m. 1st, Ebenezer Harker (Savage, vol. ii. p. 
177) ; 2d, James Gardner, as second wife (Ibid., p. 228). 

Folger, Bethsua, m. Joseph Pope, of Salem. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 
177.) 

Folger, John, rti. Mary Barnard, dau. Nathaniel Barnard. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Experience, m. John Swain, Jr., son John Swain, the 
proprietor. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Abiah, m. Josiah Franklin. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 
vol. xvi., Folger Family, probably 1690.) 



Children of Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner. 

Folger, Eleazer, Jr., m. 1st, Bethia Gardner (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I. p. 24); 2d, Mary Marshall (Ibid., p. 10, 1717). 

Folger, Peter, m. Judith Coffin, dau. Stephen and Mary Coffin, 
(N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xvi. pp. 271-274, Folger Family.) 

Folger, Nathan, to. Sarah Church. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 8, 1699.) 

Folger, Sarah, m. Anthony Oder. (Ibid., p. 6, 1702.) 

Folger, Mary, m. John Arthur. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. 
I. p. 9, 1704.) 



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Children of Nathan Folger and Sarah Church. 
Folger, Abishai, m. 1st, Sarah Mayhew W. C. Folger (MSS., 
1727) ; 2d, Dinah Starbuck, widow Benjamin, and dau. Stephen 

Coffin, Jr. (Ibid.). r^ x, a 

Folger, Peter, m. Christian Swain. (Nantucket Town Kecords, 

Bk. irp. 45, 1731.) , T. • J , 

Folger, Barzillai, m. Phebe Coleman. (Nantucket Friends 

Pvecords, 1730.) rr. ^ a 

Folger, Timothy, m. Anna Chase. (Nantucket Town Records, 

Folger, Leah, m. 1st, Richard3 Gardner (Ibid., p. 16, 1724) ; 2d, 
Seth Paddack, son Joseph Paddack (W. C. Folger MSS., Gardner 

^To'lgerfjudith, m. Thomas Jenkins. (Nantucket Town Records, 

1728-29.) 

Folger, Esther, unm. 

Children of Abishai Folger and Sarah Mayhew, First 

Wife. 

Folger, William, m. Ruth Coffin, dau. Barnabas Coffin. (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Records, Bk. I. p. 170, 1749.) 

Folger, George, m. 1st, Sarah Coleman (Ibid., 1752); 2d, Sarah 
Shove, dau. of Barnabas. 

Folger, Timothy, m. Abial Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 

1753.) 

Children of Abishai Folger and Dinah Starbuck, Second 

Wife. 

Folger, Sarah, m. 1st, Hezekiah Gardner, (Nantucket Friends' 
Records 1758) ; 2d, Robert Barker (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Folge'r, HepLibai, m. Daniel Hussey, Jr. (Nantucket Friends' 

Records, 1760.) 

Folger, Dinah, m. Seth Jenkins. (Geo. H. Folger MSb., p. 194^ 
Folger! Abishai, m. Elizabeth Coleman. (Nantucket Friends 

Records, 1733.) , ^ xy a. 

Folger, Reuben, m. Phebe Folger. (Nantucket Town Records, 

Bk. 1%. 112, 1783.) 

Folger, Robert, m. Elizabeth Folger, dau. Benjamin Folger. ( W. 

C. Folger MSS., p. 9.) 



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Children of William Folger and Rxtth Coffin, 

Folger, Judith, m. Zaccheus Bunker, son of Zachery and Desire 
Bunker. (Nantucket Friends' Eecords, 1767.) 

Folger, William, Jr., m. Susan Swain. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., 1798.) 

Folger, Sarah, Jr., m. Tristram Hussey. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1777.) 

Folger, Lydia, m. Zaccheus Hussey. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., 1780.) 

Folger, Richard, w. Sarah Pease (by George Bunker, justice of 
peace). (Ibid., p. 15, 1722.) 

Folger, Francis, unyn. 

Folger, Elizabeth, vi. as second wife Josiah Barker, son Josiah 
and Elizabeth Barker. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 1786.) 

Folger, Phebe, m. Uriel Hussey. (Ibid., 1789.) 

Folger, Anna, m. Thomas Coffin. (Ibid., 1790.) 

Folger, Mayhew,* ni. Mary Joy, dau. Francis and Phebe Joy. 
(Ibid., 1798.) 

Folger, Walter, 1st, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Thomas and 
Rachel Starbuck. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 18.) 

Folger, Walter, 2d, m. Anna Ray, dau. Alexander and Elizabeth 
Ray. (Ibid., p. 19.) 

Folger, Walter, 3d, m. Polly Folger, dau. Simeon and Phebe 
Folger. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 177, 1809.) 

Folger, Dinah, m. Stephen Chase. (Ibid., p. 47, 1742.) 

Folger, Judith, m. James Gardner. (Ibid., p. 52, 1746.) 

Folger, Nathaniel, m. Priscilla Chase. (Ibid., 1718.) 

Folger, George, Jr., son George and Sarah Folger, m. Rebecca 
Slocum. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Folger, George Gill, son George, Jr., m. Anna Barker, dau. Francis 
Barker. (Ibid., 1807.) 

Folger, Jethro, m. Mary Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., 
and Dinah (Coffin). (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I. p. 6, 
1710.) 

Folger, Barillai, in. Miriam Gardner. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 163, 1803.) 

Folger, Uriah, m. Anna Gardner. (Ibid., p. 157, 1803.) 

* Captain Mayhew Folger found the lost mutineers of the ship 
" Bounty" on Pitcairn Island in 1809. 



129 

Folger, Lydia, m. Zaccheus Hussey. (Ibid., p. 109, 1780.) 
Folger, Ann, m. James Mitchell. (See Mitchell Family Records, 
1738.) 

Children ok Governor Thomas Gardiner and Margaret 

Frier. 
Gardiner, Thomas, »n. 1st, Margaret Frier; 2d, Damaris Shattuck. 
(" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," pp. 100, 207.) 
Gardner, Seeth, m. Joseph Grafton, 2d. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 229.) 
Gardner, Eichard, m. Sarah Shattuck. (Ibid., 1652.) 
Gardner, George, m. Hannah Shattuck. (Ibid., p. 228.) 
Gardner, John, m. Priscilla Grafton, (Ibid.) 
Gardner, Samuel, m. Mary White. (Ibid., p. 230.) 
Gardner, Joseph, m. Ann Downing, dau. Emanuel Downing. 

(Ibid.) 

Gardner, Sarah, m. Benjamin Balch. (Ibid.) 
Gardner, Miriam, m. John Hill. (Ibid.) 

Children of Richard Gardiner, 1st, and Sarah Shattuck. 

Gardner, Joseph, m. Bethia Macy, dau. Thomas and Sarah 
(Hopcot) Macy. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 229, 1670.) 

Gardner, Sarah, w. Eleazer Folger, son Peter and Mary (Morrell) 
Folger. (Ibid., 1671.) 

Gardner, Richard, Jr., ot. Mary Austin. (Ibid., p. 230, 1674, and 
Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 2.) 

Gardner, Deborah, m. 1st, John Macy, son Thomas^ Macy (Savage, 
vol. ii. p. 229) ; 2d, Stephen Pease (Macy Genealogy, p. 67). 

Gardner, Damaris. 

Gardner, James,* m. 1st, Mary Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, 
Sr.; 2d, Patience Folger, dau. Peter Folger; 3d, Rachel Brown, 
-widow John Brown, of Salem, and dau. Capt. John Gardner ; 4th, 
Mary Pinkham, widow Richard Pinkham, and dau. James Coffin 
and Mary Severance. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 227.) 

Gardner, Miriam, m. John Worth. (Ibid., p. 229, 1684.) 



* Children of James Gardner and first wife, Mary Starbuck, were 
Samuel, Jethro, Barnabas, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Mehitable. Patience 
(Folger) Gardner had no children. Rachel (Brown) Gardner had one 
son, James Gardner. Fourth wife, Mary( Pinkham) Gardner, had 
no Gardner children. 



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130 

Gardner, Nathaniel, m. Abigail Coffin, dau. James and Mary 
(Severance) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Hope, m. John Coffin. (" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen 
Coffin, LL.B., p. 56, 1692. 

Gardner, Love. 

Children of John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 

Gardner, John, m. Susanna Green, of Salem. (W. C. Folger MSS., 
Gardner Family, p. 30.) 

Gardner, Joseph. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 228.) 

Gardner, Priscilla, m. John Arthur (second wife). Clbid.) 

Gardner, Benjamin, died young. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Rachel, tn. 1st, John Brown ; 2d, James Gardner (third 
wife). (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Benjamin. 

Gardner, George, m. Eunice Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, 
Sr. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 220, about 1695.) 

Gardner, Ann, m. Edward Coffin. 

Gardner, Nathaniel. 

Gardner, Mary, m. Jethro Coffin. (W. C. Folger MSS., Gardner 
Family, p. 30.) 

Gardner, Mehitable, m. Ambrose Dawes, Jr. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Ruth, m. James Coffin, Jr. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Solomon, son Richard, Jr., m. Anna Coffin, dau. Stephen 
Coffin and Mary (Bunker). (W. C. Folger MSS., Gardner Family.) 

Gardner, Paul, son Solomon, m. Rachel Starbuck, dau. Thomas and 
Rachel Starbuck. ("One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 
145.) 

Gardner, Paul, Jr., m. 1st, Sarah Mitchell, dau. Jethro Mitchell; 
2d, Merab Spooner, dau. Seth and Dinah Spooner; 3d, Lydia Fitch. 
(W. C. Folger MSS., p. 154.) 

Gardner, Zenas, son Paul and Rachel Gardner, m. Susanna Hussey. 
(" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 145, 1790.) 

Gardner, Richard^, m. Leah Folger. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 16, 1724.) 

Gardner, Miriam, dau. Richard Gardner, Jr., ni. Samuel Coffin, son 
Lieutenant John Coffin. (See Coffin Family, p. 123.) 

Gorham, Captain John, m. Desire Howland. (Plymouth Colonial 
Records, vol. ii. p. 79, 1644.) 

Gorham, Stephen, tn. Elizabeth Gardner (by William Worth, 
justice of peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 8, 1703.) 



131 

Greenleaf, Stephen, Sr., »n. 1st, Elizabeth Coffin ("One Hundred 
and Sixty Allied Families," p. 67, 1651) ; 2d, Esther,* widow Cap- 
tain Benjamin Swett (Ibid., p. 277, 1679). 

Children of Stephex Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin. 

Greenleaf, Stephen, m. Elizabeth Gerrish, dau. William Gerrish. 
(" Ye Coffin Family," Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 65, 1676.) 

Greenleaf, Sarah, ni, Richard Dole, of Newberry, son Richard 
Dole. (Ibid., 1677.) 

Greenleaf, Daniel, imm. (Ibid.) 

Greenleaf, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Noyes, son James Noyes. (Ibid., 
1677.) 

Greenleaf, John, m. Elizabeth Hills. (Ibid., 1685.) 

Greenleaf, Samuel, m. Sarah Kent, dau. John Kent. (Ibid., 1689.) 

Greenleaf, Tristram, m. Margaret Piper. (Ibid., 1689.) 

Greenleaf, Edmund, m. Abigail Somerby, dau. Abiel Somerby. 
(Ibid., 1691.) 

Greenleaf, Judith, unm. (Ibid.) 

Greenleaf, Mary, m. Joshua Moody, son Caleb Moody. (Ibid.) 

Greenleaf, Sarah, dau. Nathaniel, and grand-dau. Tristram and 
Margaret (Piper) Greenleaf,t m. Joseph Whittier, 2d. (Whittier 
Family Records.) 

Hosier, Giles, in. Elizabeth Mitchell. (Family papers, 1768.) 

Hussey, John, m. Mary Wood. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied 
Families," p. 142, 1593.) 

Hussey, Christopher, son John Hussey, m. 1st, Theodate Batchel- 
der (Ibid., 1632) ; 2d, Ann Mingay (Ibid., 1658). 

Children of Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batch- 
elder. 

Hussey, Stephen, m. Martha Bunker, dau. George and Jane (God- 
frey) Bunker. (W. C. Folger MSS., 1676.) 

Hussey, John,;}: m. Rebecca Perkins, dau. Isaac and Susanna Per- 
kins, of Hampton. (Savage, vol. ii. p. 507, 1659.) 

* Esther Greenleaf, second wife of Stephen Greenleaf, Sr., died in 
1718, aged eighty-nine. 

t Grandparents of John Greenleaf Whittier. 

X John Hussey, son of Christopher Hussey, had two sons and 
fourteen daughters. He removed after 1688 to New Castle, Dela- 



132 

Hiissey, Mary, w. 1st, Thomas Page, son Kobert and Lucy Page 
(" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 143, 1664) ; 2d, Henry 
Green (Savage, vol. ii. p. 507, 1691) ; 3d, Henry Dow, son Henry and 
Joan Dow (W. C. Folger MSS., 1704.) 

Hussey, Theodate. 

Hussey, Huldah, ??i. John Smith, son John Smith. (Savage, vol. 
ii. p. 607, 1667.) 

Hussey, Joseph. 

Children of Stephen Hussey and Maktha Bunker. 

Hussey, Puella, m. Stephen Gorham, son John and Mary (Otis) 
Gorham. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 143, 1695.) 

Hussey, Abigail, w. 1st, Thomas Hause (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk, I. p. 5, 1700) ; 2d, Joseph Marshall, son James and Ruth (Haw- 
kins) Marshall ("One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 143). 

Hussey, Sylvanus, m. 1st, Abial Brown,* dau. John and Rachel 
(Gardner) Brown (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 9, 1711-12) ; 
2d, Hepzibah Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah 
(Coffin) (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 25, 1720). 

Hussey, Batchelor, m. Abigail Hall. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 8, 1704.) 

Hussey, Daniel, untn. 

Hussey, Mary, m. 1st, Jonathan Worth, son John and Miriam 
(Gardner) Worth (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I. p. 9, 1707) ; 2d, 
Ebenezer Barnard, son Nathaniel and Mary Barnard (" One Hun- 
dred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 144, 1722). 

Hussey, George, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel, Jr., and 
Dinah (Coffin) Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I. p. 10, 
1717.) 

Hussey, Theodate, m. James Johnson. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 21, 1726.) 



ware, and was a "preacher to the Quakers." (Savage, vol. ii. p. 
507.) 

Savage, vol. ii. pp. 507, 508, gives: 

Robert Hussey, Duxbury, 1643-45; probably died 1667. 

Robert Hussey, Dover, in tax-list 1659. 

Robert Hussey, Boston, 1690. 

* Abial Brown was great-grand-daughter of Peter Hobart. See pp. 
58, 59, and Savage, vol. ii. pp. 271, 435; also History of Hingham, 
Massachusetts, vol. iv. p. 335. 



133 

Children of Sylvanits Hussey, Sr., and Abial Brown. 

Hussey, Obed, m. 1st, Margaret "Wilson, dau. John and Margaret 
Wilson (Nantucket Town Kecords, Bk. I. p. 26, 1730) ; 2d, Mary 
Calef, dau. Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Fitch) Calef (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 56, 
1748). 

Hussey, Daniel, ?n. Sarah Gorham, dau. Stephen and Elizabeth 
(Gardner) Gorham. (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 29, 1784-35.) 

Hussey, Kachel, m. 1st, Barnabas Coleman, son John and Priscilla 
(Starbuck) Coleman (Nantucket Friends' Kecords, Bk. I. p. 62, 1733) ; 
2d, Paul Bunker, son Jabez and Hannah (Gardner) Bunker ("One 
Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 144, 1790). 

Hussey, Jonathan, m. Hepzibah Starbuck, dau. Paul and Ann 
(Tibbets) Starbuck. (Ibid., 1739.) 

Hussey, Seth, m. Sarah Jenkins, dau. Matthew and Mary (Gard- 
ner) Jenkins. (Nantucket Friends' Kecords, Bk. I. p. 110, 1742.) 

Children of Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 

Hussey, Christopher, m. Mary Coffin, dau. Jonathan and Hepzibah 
(Harker) Coffin. ("One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 
145, 1743.) 

Hussey, "William, m. Abigail Starbuck, dau. Paul and Ann (Tib- 
bets) Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Kecords, Bk. I. p. 52, 1746.) 

Hussey, Batchelor, m. Anna Coffin, dau. Daniel and Mary (Blake) 
Coffin. (Ibid., p. 157, 1748.) 

Hussey, Nathaniel, m. Judith Coffin, dau. Francis and Theodate 
(Gorham) Coffin. (Ibid., p. 185, 1750.) 

Hussey, Hepzibah, m. Nathaniel Coleman, son Barnabas and Eliz- 
abeth (Barnard) Coleman. (Ibid., p. 172, 1749.) 

Hussey, Sylvanus, Jr., m. 1st, Alice Gray, dau. Jeremiah and 
Theodate Gray (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 144, 
1756) ; 2d, Lydia Wing, dau. Samuel and Hepzibah (Hathaway) 
Wing (Ibid.). 

Hussey, George, 9n. Deborah Paddack, dau. Daniel and Susanna 
(Gorham) Paddack. (Ibid., p. 145, 1757.) 

Hussey, Joseph, m. Mary Kaymer. Ibid., 1766.) 

Children of George Hussey and Deborah Paddack. 

Hussey, Rhoda, m. Tristram Folger, son Barzillai and Phebe 
(Coleman) Folger. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 
145, 1776.) 

Hussey, Eunice, m. Peleg Easton, son Peleg and Mary (Frye) 
Easton. (Ibid., 1778.) 



134 

Hussey, George Gorham, m. Lydia Chase, dau. Francis and Naomi 
(Gardner) Chase. (Ibid.) 

Hussey, Uriel, in. Phebe Folger, dau. William and Kuth (Coffin) 
Folger, (Ibid., 1789.) 

Hussey, Sylvanus, m. Prudence Pease, dau. John and Jerusha 
(Norton) Pease. (Ibid., 1794.) 

Hussey, Barnabas. (Ibid.) 

Hussey, Susanna, m. Zenas Gardner, son Paul and Rachel (Star- 
buck) Gardner. (Ibid., 1790.) 

Hussey, Deborah, 7n. Robert Brayton, son Israel and Elizabeth 
(Lawton) Brayton (Ibid., 1795.) 

Hussey, Alice, unm. (Ibid.) 

Hussey, Rachel, m. Joseph Austin, dau. Jeremiah and Patience 
(Fish) Austin. (Ibid., 1808.) 

Hussey, Mary, m. Peleg Swain. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. 

I. p. 25, 1730.) 

Hussey, Tristram, son Bachelor Hussey, m. Sarah Folger, dau. 

William and Ruth (Coffin) Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 171, 

1777.) 

Hussey, Sarah, m. John Milton Earle, son Pliny and Patience 

Earle. '(Ibid., p. 180, 1821.) 

Hussey, Daniel, m. Anna Starbuck. (Nantucket Town Records, 

Bk. I. p. 133, 1793.) 

Hussey, Mary, m. Thomas Earle, son Pliny and Patience Earle. 

(W. C. Folger MSS., 1820.) 
Hussey, Reuben, m. Elizabeth Woodbury. (Nantucket Town 

Records, Bk. I. p. 50, 1744.) 

Hussey, Zaccheus, m. Lydia Folger. (Nantucket Court Records, 

Bk. I. p. 24.) 

Hussey, Simeon, m. Abigail Bunker. (Ibid , Bk. II. p. 2, 1784.) 
Hussey, Albert, m. Rebekah Shove. (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 28, 1785.) 
Hussey, James, w. Eunice Swain. (Ibid., 1786.) 
Hussey, Samuel, m. Charlotte Bartlett. (Ibid., Bk. II. p. 4, 1789.) 
Hussey, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Swain. (Ibid , p. 6, 1790.) 
Hussey, Ebenezer, m. Mehitable Smith. (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 4, 1770.) 
Hussey, Reuben, m. Phebe Bunker. (Ibid., p. 5, 1772.) 
Hussey, Jethro, m. Margaret Coffin. (Ibid., p. 12, 1766.) 
Hussey, John, son Bachelor and Abigail, w. Jedidah Coffin, dau. 

Joseph and Bethiah Coffin. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I. p. 

67, 1733-34.) 

Hussey, Bethiah, m. Bachelor Bunker. (Nantucket Town Records, 

Bk. I. p. 73, 1759.) 



135 

Hussey, Abigail, m. Joseph Myrick. (Ibid., p. 76, 1763.) 
Hussey, Hepzibah, m. Job Bunker. (Court Records, Bk. I. p. 29, 
1767.) 
Hussey, Sarah, m. John Darling. (Ibid., p. 1, 1767.) 
Hussey, Mary, m. Ebenezer Perkins. (Ibid., p. 26, 1783.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, in. Thomas Delano. (Ibid., p. 25, 1781.) 
Hussey, Lydia, m. Alexander Coffin. (Ibid., p. 28, 1784.) 
Hussey, Susanna, m. Obed Barnard. (Ibid., 1786.) 
Hussey, Abiel, m. Philip Pollard. (Ibid., p. 2, 1786.) 
Hussey, Abigail, m. Bachelor Bunker. (Ibid., p. 14, 1773.) 

Daughters of George and Elizabath (Starbuck) Hussey. 

Hussey, Kuth, m. Nathaniel GTardner, son Nathaniel and Mary 
Gardner. (Nantucket Eriends' Records, Bk. I. p. 146, 1746.) 

Hussey, Elizabeth, m. Peleg Coffin, son Francis and Theodate 
Coffin. (Ibid., p. 168, 1749.) 

Hussey, Martha, m. Richard Swain, (son Richard and Elizabeth 
Swain. (Ibid., p. 197, 1751.) 

Hussey, Deborah, m. Peter Coffin, son Paul and Mary Coffin. 
(Ibid., p. 87, 1738.) 

Hussey, Lydia, m. Clothier Pierce, son Clothier and Hannah 
Pierce, of Newport. (Ibid., p. 113, 1742.) 

Hussey, Dinah, m. Reuben Folger, son Jonathan and Margaret 
Eolger. (Ibid., p. 125, 1743-44.) 

Hussey, Christopher, in. Lydia Manchester. (Nantucket Court 

Records, Bk. I. p. 2, 1769.) 
Hussey, Sarah, m. John Waterman. (Ibid., Bk. II. p. 2, 1786.) 
Hussey, Abigail, m. Perez Waterman. (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 12, 1765.) 
Hussey, Abiel, to. Francis Pinkham. (Ibid., p. 29, 1787.) 
Hussey, Mary, m. Thaddeus Gardner. (Ibid,, Bk. II. p. 3, 1788.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, jyi. Peter Chace. (Ibid., p. 5, 1789.) 
Hussey, Abiel, m. Nathaniel Coffin. (Ibid., Bk. I. p. 7, 1752.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, w. David Basitard or Basihard. (Ibid., p. 8, 

1755.) 

Hussey, Lydia, m. Simeon Bunker. (Ibid., p. 2, 1769.) 
Hussey, Margaret, ni. Thomas Snow. (Ibid., p. 15, 1768.) 
Hussey, Huldah, dau. Bachelor and Abigail Hussey, m. Simeon 

Bunker, son Jonathan and Elizabeth Bunker. (Nantucket Friends' 

Records, Bk. I. p. 71, 1734-35.) 

Hussey, Jedidah, dau. Bachelor and Abigail Hussey, m. Benjamin 

Coffin, son Nathaniel and Damaris Coffin. (Ibid., p. 32, 1726.) 



136 

Hussey, Elizabeth, dau. Daniel and Sarah Hussey, m. Benjamin 
Coffin, son Benjamin and Jedidah Coffin. (Ibid., 1754.) 

Macy', Thomas, m. Sarah Hopcot. (Macy Genealogy, p. 67.) 

Macy2, Sarah, in. William Worth. (Ibid., 1665.) 

Macy^ Mary, m. William Bunker. (Ibid., 1669.) 

Macy*, Bethiah, w. Joseph Gardner, son Kichard and Sarah Gard- 
ner. (Ibid., 1670.) 

Macy'', John, m. Deborah Gardner, dau. Kichard and Sarah Gard- 
ner. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Sarah, m. John Barnard, son Nathaniel Barnard. (Ibid., 
pp. 67, 68.) 

Macy*, Deborah, m. Daniel Kussell. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Bethiah, m. 1st, Joseph Coffin, son James and Mary Coffin 
(Ibid., p. 68) ; 2d, John Kenough (Ibid.). 

Macy*, Mary, m. Solomon Coleman, son John Coleman and 
Joanna (Folger). (Ibid., 1711.) 

Macy*, John,* m. Judith Worth, dau. John Worth and Miriam 
Gardner. (Ibid., pp. 67-69, 1707.) 

Macy*, Miriam, m. Zephaniah Coffin, son Stephen and Experience 
(Look) Coffin. (Ibid., 1725.) 

Macy*, Jabez, m. Sarah Starbuck, dau. Jethro and Dorcus Star- 
buck. (Ibid., p. 77, 1712 ) 

Macy*, Thomas, m. Deborah Coffin, dau. Lieutenant John Coffin 
and Deborah (Austin). (Ibid., pp. 68, 78, 79.) 

Macy*, Richard, -j- m. 1st, Deborah Pinkham, dau. Richard and 
Mary Pinkham (Ibid., p. 68, 1711) ; 2d, Alice Paddack, dau. Joseph 
and Sarah (Gardner) Paddack (Ibid., pp. 80, 81, 1769.) 

Macy*, Anna, m. Joseph Jenkins, son Matthew Jenkins and Mary 
(Gardner). (Ibid., pp. 67-69, 1734.) 

Macy*, Judith, m. William Clasby, Jr., son William Clasby 
and Abial Gardner. (Ibid., p. 68, 1753.) 



* John and Judith (Worth) Macy were the first of the name who 
joined the Society of Friends; they became members in 1711 (Macy 
Gen., p. 68), three years after the Society was established on the 
island. 

-[-Richard Macy built the first wharf on Nantucket, in 1723, also 
the first windmill. (Macy Gen., p. 81.) 

Note. — Figure over surname in Macy family indicates generation 
from Thomas Macy, proprietor and settler ; five generations are here 
given complete. 



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Macy^ Sarah, m. Kichard Gardner, son Solomon and Anna (Coffin) 
Gardner. (Ibid., p. 68, 1746.) 

Macy*, Eunice, m. Richard Beard, son John, of Devonshire, Eng- 
land. (Ibid., p. 77, 1742.) 

MacyS Lydia, m. Matthew Jenkins, son Peter and Abigail 
(Gardner) Jenkins. (Ibid., 1753.) 

MacyS Love, m. Joseph Eotch, son William and Hannah Rotch. 
(Ibid., pp. 68, 78, 79, 1733.) 

Macy*, Lydia, m. Jethro Coleman, son John and Priscilla (Star- 
buck) Coleman. (Ibid., 1747.) 

Macy*, Elizabeth, m. Francis Barnard, son Benj. and Judith 
(Gardner) Barnard. (Ibid., p. 78, 1741.) 

Macy*, Deborah, m. Benjamin Coffin, son Nathaniel and Damans 
(Gayer) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

MacyS Anna, m. Richard Worth, son Richard and Sarah (Hoag) 
Worth. (Ibid., 1752.) 

Macy*, Hepzibeth, m. Thomas Davis. (Ibid., 1752.) 

Macy*, Mary, m. Benjamin Marshall. (Macy Genealogy, p. 81, 

1749.) 

MacyS Judith, m. Jonathan Bunker, son Peleg Bunker and 
Susanna (Coffin). (Ibid., 1742.) 

MacyS Ruth, m. Joseph Starbuck, son Paul Starbuck and Ann 
(Tibbets). (Ibid., 1744.) 

MacyS David, m. Dinah Gardner, dau. Solomon Gardner and 
Anna (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 82, 1739.) 

MacyS John, m. Eunice Coleman, dau. Elihu and Jemima 
(Barnard) Coleman. (Ibid., p. 84, 1743.) 

MacyS Jonathan, son John, m. Lois Gorham, dau. Stephen and 
Elizabeth (Gardner) Gorham. (Ibid., p. 85, 1744.) 

MacyS William, m. Mary Barney, dau. Benj. and Lydia (Starbuck) 
Barney. (Ibid., p. 86, 1746.) 

MacyS Jethro, vi. Hepzibeth Worth, dau. William and Mary 
(Butler) Worth. (Ibid., p. 87, 1750.) 

MacyS Daniel, son Jabez, m. Abigail Swain, dau. Caleb and 
Margaret (Paddack) Swain. (Ibid., p. 88, 1755.) 

MacyS Matthew, m. 1st, Abigail Coffin, dau. Benj. and Jedidah 
(Hussey) Coffin (Ibid., p. 89, 1755); 2d, Abigail Gardner, dau. 
Barnabas and Mary (Wheeler) Gardner (Ibid., 1761). 

MacyS Jabez, m. Rachel Cartwright, dau. Hezidiah and Abigail 
(Brown) Cartwright. (Ibid., 1767.) 

MacyS Joseph, w. Hannah Hobbs, dau. Benjamin Hobbs. (Ibid., 
p. 90, 1728.) 



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Macy*, Eobert, m. Abigail Barnard, dau. Benjamin and Judith 
(Gardner) Barnard. (Ibid., p. 94, 1731.) 

Macy*, Francis, m. Judith Coffin, dau. Kichard and Ruth (Coffin) 
Bunker. (Ibid., 1738.) 

Macy*, Nathaniel, m. Abigail Pinkham, dau. Shubael and Abigail 
(Bunker) Pinkham. (Ibid., p. 95, 1741.) 

Macy*, Zaccheus, ?«. Hepzibah Gardner, dau. Samuel and Patience 
(Swain) Gardner. (Ibid., p. 96, 1734.) 

Macy*, Abraham, m. Anna "Worth, dau. Joseph and Lydia 
(Gorham) Worth. (Ibid., p. 109, 1738.) 

Macy*, Caleb, m. Judith Gardner (widow James), dau. Daniel 
and Abigail Folger. (Ibid., p. 110, 1749.) 

Macy*, Benjamin, m. Abigail Brown, dau. George and Abigail 
(Trott) Brown. (Ibid., p. 111.) 

Macy^, Miriam, dau. David, m. Eobert Gardner, son Robert and 
Jedidah Gardner. (Ibid., p. 82, 1761.) 

Macy*, Anna, m. Enoch Macy, son Joseph and Hannah (Hobbs) 
Macy. (Ibid., 1763.) 

Macy^, Sarah, m. Timothy Russell, son William and Ruth (Swain) 
Russell. (Ibid., 1766.) 

Macy^, Bethiah,m. Paul Macy, son Joseph and Hannah (Hobbs) 
Macy. (Ibid., p. 84, 1761.) 

Macy*, Judith, m. Reuben Bunker, son Reuben and Mary (Chase) 
Bunker. (Ibid., 1762.) 

Macy*, Jemima, m. Barzillai Gardner, son Stephen and Jemima 
(Worth) Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Merab, m. Timothy Macy, son Jethro and Hepzibah 
(Worth) Macy. (Ibid., 1783.)' 

Macy*, Amy, m. Libni Barnard, son Benj. and Eunice (Fitch) 
Barnard. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Abigail, dau. John, m. Benjamin Stanton, son Benjamin 
and Lydia (Albison) Stanton, of North Carolina. (Ibid., p. 83, 
1744.) 

Macy*, Elizabeth, m. Elihu Coleman, son Jethro and Lydia 
(Paddack) Coleman. (Ibid., p. 85, 1762.) 

Macy*, Hepzibeth, m. Thomas Pierce. (Ibid., p. 87.) 

Macy*, Mary, m. Samuel Coffin, son William and Priscilla (Pad- 
dack) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Jedidah, m. Joseph Swain, son Nathaniel and Bethiah 
(Macy) Swain. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Huldah, m. Asa Barnard, son Tristram and Margaret 
(Folger) Barnard. (Ibid., p. 88, 1792.) 



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Macy*, Margaret, )n. Obed Paddack, son Jonathan and Keziah 
(Gardner) Paddack. (Ibid., p. 88, 1787.) 

Macy^, Abigail, dau. Daniel, w. Matthew Barney, son Benjamin 
and Jemima (Jackson) Barney. (Ibid., 1791.) 

Macy*, Sarah, m. Stephen Springer. (Ibid., p. 89.) 

MacyS, Abigail, dau. Matthew, m. Joseph Coffin, son Peter and 
Priscilla (Coleman) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Macy^, Elizabeth, m. Libni Coffin, son Libni and Hepzibah (Star- 
buck) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Macy^, Lydia, dau. Jabez, m. Uriah Starbuck, son Sylvanus and 
Mary (Howes) Starbuck. (Ibid., 1786.) 

Macy^, Mary, m. 1st, Paul Way, son John and Mary (Long) Way 
(Ibid., p. 90, 1753) ; 2d, James Anthony (Ibid., 1776). 

MacyS, Bethiah, m. Nathaniel Swain, son Caleb and Margaret 
(Paddack) Swain. (Ibid., 1755.) 

Macy», Lydia, dau. Kobert, m. Abishai Gardner, son Robert and 
Jedidah (Folger) Gardner. (Ibid., p. 94, 1751.) 

Macy^, Elizabeth, m. 1st, Alexander Mooers, son Thomas and Mary 
(Stratton) Mooers (Ibid., 1762) ; 2d, William Coffin (his third wife), 
son Benj. and Jedidah (Hussey) Coffin (Ibid.). 

Macy^, Judith, m. Benjamin Stratton, son Caleb and Lois (Oder) 
Stratton. (Ibid., p. 93, 1758.) 

Macy*, Deborah, m. Jonathan Cartwright, son Hezidiah and Abi- 
gail (Brown) Cartwright. (Ibid., 1769.) 

Macy^, Abigail, dau. Robert, m. Thomas Butts. (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy^, Eunice, dau. Robert, m. Francis Bunker, son Shubael and 
Lydia (Paddack) Bunker. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Love, m. James Cartwright, son Hezidiah and Abigail 
(Brown) Cartwright. (Ibid., p. 94, 1758.) 

Macy*, Phehe, m. Benjamin Hussey, son John and Jedidah (Coffin) 
Hussey. (Ibid., 1763.) 

Macy^, Judith, m. Benjamin Coffin, son Benjamin and Rebecca 
(Coffin) Coffin. (Ibid., 1772.) 

Macy*, Anna, m. Tristram Jenkins, son Peter and Abigail (Gard- 
ner) Jenkins. (Ibid., 1774.) 

Macy^, Ruth, m. Obadiah Folger, son Barzillai and Phebe (Cole- 
man) Folger. (Ibid., 1755.) 

Macy*, Lydia, dau. Francis, m. Edward Starbuck, son Edward and 
Damaris (Worth) Starbuck. (Ibid., 1784.) 

Macy^, Eunice, dau. Nathaniel, in. Solomon Coffin, son Zephaniah 
and Abigail (Coleman) Coffin. (Ibid., p. 95.) 

Macy^, Phebe, m. 1st, Paul Barnard, son William and Mary 



140 

(Coffin) Barnard (Ibid., 1778) ; 2d, Paul Worth, son John and Mary 
(Gardner) Worth (Ibid). 

Macy^, Elizabeth, dan. Nathaniel, m. Barzilai Macy, son Caleb 
and Judith (Gardner) Macy. (Ibid., 1787.) 

Macy^, Mary, dau. Zaccheus, m. John Ray, son Samuel and Mary 
(Fullerton or Fullington) Ray. (Ibid., p. 96, 1753.) 

Macy^, Hannah, tn. Reuben Swain, son Stephen and Eleanor (Ellis) 
Swain. (Ibid., 1756.) 

Macy^, Phebe, dau. Zaccheus, m. William Stanton, son Samuel and 
Sarah "(Coffin) Stanton. (Ibid., 1756.) 

Macy^, Hepzibah, dau. Zaccheus, m. Nathaniel Macy, son Robert 
and Abigail (Barnard) Macy. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Priscilla, m. Enoch Ray, son Samuel and Mary Ray. 
(Ibid.) 

Macy*, Ruth, dau. Zaccheus, m. Thomas Barnard, son Thomas and 
Sarah (Hoag) Barnard. (Ibid., 1768.) 

Macy*, Deborah, dau. Zaccheus, m. Daniel Ray, son Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Coleman) Ray. (Ibid.) 

Macy*, Anna, dau. Abraham, m. Edward Allen, son Ebenezer and 
Christiana (Heath) Allen. (Ibid., p. 109, 1761.) 

Macy*, Ruth, dau. Abraham, m. Job Chase, son Benjamin and 
Martha Chase. (Ibid., p. 110, 1796.) 

Macy*, John,*m. 1st, Bethiah Cartwright, dau. Hezidiah and Abi- 
gail (Brown) Cartwright (Ibid., pp. 136, 137, 1768) ; 2d, Phebe Macy 
(Ibid., 1794). 

MitchelP, Richard, m. Mary Wood. (W. C. Folger MSS. and 
Mitchell Family Records.) 

MitchelP, Richard, in. Elizabeth Tripp, dau. James Tripp. f (Ibid., 
1708.) 

* John Macy, of the fifth generation from Thomas Macy', signed 
his last will when he was eighty-eight years old, and had nineteen 
children. The Macy family was a close corporation for many years. 
Up to 1800 very few surnames appear, excepting such as may be classed 
among orthodox Nantucket names. Upon these many changes were 
rung. Since that date record of intermarriages with many other 
families may be found. Among these are Willis, Howland, Havens, 
Knowles, Watson, Dingman, Wilcox, Foster, Baldwin, etc. 

f James Tripp was son of John, of Aquidneck, Rhode Island. 
John Tripp was admitted an inhabitant, 1638; commissioner, 1655; 
assistant, 1670-73-74-75; also member of Town Council for many 
years. 



141 

MitchelP, Kichard, m. Mary Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Rec- 
ords, Bk. I. p. 54, 1731.) 

Mitchell*, Richard, m. Hepzibah Barnard, dau. Robert Barnard. 
(Ibid., p. 223, 1755.) 

Mitchell*, Peleg, Sr., m. Lydia Cartwright. (Nantucket Friends- 
Records, Bk. II. 1779.) 

Children of Peleg Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia Cartwright. 

Mitchell, George, m. 1st, Phebe Chase (Nantucket Friends- 
Records, Bk. II. p. 429, 1807) ; 2d, Susan Barnard (Ibid., Bk. III., 
p. 33, 1834). 

Mitchell, William, m. Lydia Coleman. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 452, 

1812.) 

Mitchell, Hannah, m. Reuben Macy. (Nantucket Friends- 
Records, 1816.) 

Mitchell, Lydia, m. Richard Mitchell, of Rhode Island. (Ibid., 

Bk. III. p. 2, 1818.) 

Mitchell, Peleg, Jr., m. Mary S. Russell. (Nantucket Friends- 
Records, 1837.) 

Mitchell, Love, m. Isaac Brayton. (Ibid., Bk. III. p. 19, 1825.) 

Mitchell, John R., m. Eliza Brock. ( W. C. Folger MSS., Mitchell 
Family, p. 135.) 

Mitchell, John, m. Meriba Mitchell. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell, Paul, m. Merab Coffin, dau. Alexander and Eunice 
(Bunker) Coffin. (Ibid., p. 132.) 

Mitchell, James, m. Ann Folger, dau. Jethro Folger and Mary 
(Starbuck). (Nantucket Friends- Records, Bk. I. p. 86, 1738.) 

Newhall, Estes, m. Hepzibah Wing. (Sandwich Friends' Records, 

1798.) 

Newhall, Paul Wing, m. Hannah Johnson, dau. Samuel and Sarah 
Johnson. (Newhall Family Records, 1831.) 

Paddack, Zechariah, m. Deborah Sears. ("One Hundred and 
Sixty Allied Families," p. 188, 1659.) 

Paddack, Nathaniel, m. Ann Bunker. (Ibid., 1706.) 

Children of Nathaniel Paddack. 
Paddack, Deborah, m. Theophilus Pinkham. ("One Hundred 
and Sixty Allied Families,- p. 188, 1728.) 

Paddack, Love, m. George Swain. (Ibid., 1729.) 
Paddack, Lydia, m. Jethro Coleman. (Ibid., 1731.) 



142 

Paddack, Paul, m. Ann Coffin. (Ibid., 1740.) 

Paddack, Mary, m. Francis Swain. (Ibid., 1736.) 

Paddack, Dinah, m. Christopher Worth. (Ibid., 1738.) 

Paddack, Priscilla, m. William Coffin. (Ibid., 1740.) 

Paddack, Daniel, m. Susanna Gorham. (Ibid, 1726.) 

Paddack, Elizabeth, m. Joseph Swain. (Ibid., 1746.) 

Paddack, Stephen, m. Eunice Coffin. (Ibid., 1751.) 

Paddack, Lydia, m. Shubael Bunker. (Ibid., p. 189, 1750.) 

Paddack, Susanna, m. 1st, Matthew Gardner (Ibid., 1752) ; 2d, 
George Freeborn (Ibid., 1767). 

Paddack, Eunice, m. 1st, Joseph Coffin (Ibid., 1775) ; 2d, Kobert 
Clasby (Ibid.). 

Paddack, Deborah, m. George Hussey. (Ibid., 1757.) 

Paddack, Barnabas, m. Abigail Gardner. (Ibid., 1764 ) 

Paddack, Daniel, m. Susanna Gorham. (Nantucket Friends' Kec- 
ords, Bk. I. p. 38, 1726.) 

Paddack, Nathaniel, vi. Deborah Pinkham (by " Bezaleel Shaw, 
Minister of the Gospel"). (Nantucket Court Kecords, Bk. I. p. 25, 
1782.) 

Pinkham, Keuben, m. Anna Starbuck (by Jeremiah Gardner, 
justice of peace). (Nantucket Town Ptecords, Bk. I. p. 68, 1755.) 

Prence, Thomas, m. 1st, Patience Brewster, dau. Elder Brewster 
(1624) ; 2d, Mary Collier, dau. William Collier (Winsor's History of 

Duxbury, p. 248, 1635); 3d, Freeman, widow Samuel Freeman 

(Plymouth Colonial Kecords, vol. i. p. 34, 1662). 

Kodman, Joseph, m. Mary Miller. (Gen. of Kodman Family, p. 
27, 1745.) 

Rodman, Hannah, dau. Joseph, vi. William Mitchell, son Richard 
and Mary (Starbuck) Mitchell. (Ibid., 1767.) 

Rodman, Clark, son Joseph, m. Abigail Lawton. (Ibid., p. 39, 
1775.) 

Rodman, David, m. Joanna Mitchell. (Ibid.) 

Rodman, Thomas, m. Mary Borden. (Ibid., p. 27, 1750.) /^ 

Rodman, Elizabeth, dau. Thomas, w. William Rotch, Jr. (Ibid., ^"'^■^ 
p. 41, 1782.) 

Rodman, Samuel, son Thomas and Mary, m. Elizabeth Rotch. 
(Ibid., p. 39, 1780.) 

Rodman, Anna, m. Thomas Hazzard. (Ibid., p. 32, 1780.) 

Rotch, Joseph, son William and Hannah Rotch, m. Love Macy, 
dau. Thomas and Deborah (Coffin) Macy. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Bk. I. p. 69, 1733.) 



^IJ 



143 

Kotch, William, son Joseph and Love (Macy) Rotch, to. Elizabeth 
Barney, dau. Benjamin and Lydia (Starbuck) Barney. (Ibid., p. 
229, 1754.) 

Rotch, Sarah, in. James Arnold. (Gen. of Rodman Family, p. 72, 
1807.) 

EusselP, Daniel, m. Deborah Macy. (Macy Genealogy, pp. 67, 68.) 

RusselP, John, 1st, m. Ruth Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Bk. I. p. 60, 1731-32.) 

EusselP, John, 2d, to. Hepzibah Coleman. (Ibid., 1777.) 

Russell*, Barnabas, m. Mary Swain. (Ibid., 1811.) 

EusselP, Jonathan, ni. Patience Swain. (W. 0. Folger MSS.) 

Russell, Sylvanus, m. Anna Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Russell, Uriah, m. Lydia Swain. (Ibid.) 

Sears, Richard, to. Dorothy Thatcher. (" One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," pp. 205, 240, 1632.) 

Stanton, Samuel, son John and Elizabeth Stanton, to. Sarah Coffin, 
dau. Samuel and Miriam Coffin. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. 
I. p. 68, 1733-34.) 

Stanton, Giles E., to. Hannah Beebe. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 163, 1805.) 

Stanton, Benjamin, m. Abigail Macy. (See Macy Family, p. 83, 
1774.) 

Starbuck, Edward, m. Katharine Reynolds. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., vol. viii. p. 68.) 

Children of Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, to. Mary Coffin. (See Coffin Family, p. 122.) 

Starbuck, Jethro, unm. 

Starbuck, Sarah, m. 1st, William Story, d. 1658 (N. E. Hist, and 

Gen. Reg., vol. viii. p. 129, 1658) ; 2d, Joseph Austin, d. 1663 (W. C. 

Folger MSS., 1664) ; 3d, Humphrey Varney,* as second wife (1664). 
Starbuck, Dorcas, m. William Gayer. (W. C. Folger, MSS.) 
Starbuck, Abigail, m. Peter Coffin. (See Coffin Family, p. 122.) 
Starbuck, Esther, to. Humphrey Varney. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Children of Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mart Coffin. 

Starbuck, Mary, m. James Gardner, son Richard Gardner. ("Ye 
Coffin Family," by Allen Coffin, LL.B., pp. 57, 58.) 



* Humphrey Yarney's first wife was Esther, sister of Sarah Star- 
buck. 



144 

Starbuck, Elizabeth, m. 1st, Peter CoflSn, Jr. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Eeg., 1682); 2d, Nathaniel Barnard, Jr. ("One Hundred and 
Sixty Allied Families," p. 220). 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Jr., m. Dinah Coffin. (See Coffin Family, 
p. 123, 1690.) 

Starbuck, Jethro, m. Dorcas Gayer. (Nantucket Town Kecords, 
Bk. I. p. 7, 1694.) 

Starbuck, Eunice, m. George Gardner, son John Gardner. (See 
Gardner Family, p. 130, W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Starbuck, Priscilla, m. John Coleman, 2d, grandson Thomas Cole- 
man^. (See Coleman Family, p. 125, Ibid.) 

Starbuck, Hepzibah, m. Thomas Hathaway, of Dartmouth, Massa- 
chusetts. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 220, about 
1697.) 



Children of Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Starbuck, Mary, m. Jethro Folger. ("One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," p. 221, 1709.) 

Starbuck, Paul, rn. 1st, Ann Tibbets (Ibid., 1718) ; 2d, Keziah 
Gardner, widow Jethro (Ibid.) ; 3d, Elizabeth Coffin, widow Daniel 
(Ibid., 1751). 

Starbuck, Priscilla, m. Shubael Coffin. (Ibid., 1717.) 

Starbuck, Elizabeth, ?n. George Hussey. (Ibid., 1717.) 

Starbuck, Hepzibah, m. Sylvanus Hussey, Sr. (See Hussey Family, 
pp. 132, 133, W. C. Folger MSS., 1723.) 

Starbuck, Abigail, m. 1st, Thomas Howey ("One Hundred and 
Sixty Allied Families," p. 221, 1723); 2d, John Way (Ibid., 
1741). 

Starbuck, Benjamin, m. Dinah Coffin, dau. Stephen Coffin, Jr. 
(Ibid., 1730.) 

Starbuck, Tristram, son Nathaniel, Jr., and Dinah (Coffin) Star- 
buck, TO. Deborah Coffin, dau. Samuel and Miriam Coffin. (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Pvecords, Bk. I. p. 49, 1729.) 

Starbuck, Ruth, m. John Eussell. (Ibid., p. 60, 1731-32.) 

Starbuck, Anna, m. Peter Barnard. ("One hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," p. 221, 1738.) 



Swain, Eichard, m. 1st, Elizabeth ; 2d, Jane (Godfrey) 

Bunker, widow George Bunker. (Nantucket Town Eecords, 1662.) 



145 



Children of Kichard Swain and First Wife. 

Swain, Francis, m. Martha . (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 61.) 

Swain, William, of Hampton, New Hampshire, m. Prudence . 

(Ibid.) 

Swain, Dorothy, m. 1st, Thomas Abbott; 2d, Edward Chapman. 
(Ibid.) 

Swain, Elizabeth, m. Nathaniel Weare. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. 
Keg., vol. XXV. p. 246, 1666.) 

Swain, John, m. Mary Wier or Weare. (" One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," p. 227.) 

Child of Kichard and Second Wife. 
Swain, Kichard. 

Swain, John, 2d, in. Experience Folger. (See Folger Family, p. 
126.) 

Swain, John, 3d, in. 1st, Patience Swift (Nantucket Town Kecords, 
Bk. I. p. 6, 1706) ; 2d, Mary Swett, dau. Benjamin and Hester (Weare) 
Swett (Ibid., p. 9, 1711-12). 

Swain, Francis, 1st, m. Mary Paddack. (See Paddack Family, 
p. 142, 1786.) 

Swain, Francis, 2d, vi. Lydia Barker. (Nantucket Friends' 
Kecords, 1767.) 

Swain, Elizabeth, m. Benjamin Swift. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I. p. 129, 1791.) 

Swain, Joseph, m. Phebe Barney, dau. Benjamin and Huldah 
Barney. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Swift, Dr. Paul, in. Dorcas Gardner. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 
164, 1827.) 

Trip, John, m. Mary Paine, dau. Anthony Paine. (Austin's R. I. 
Gen. Diet.) 

Wier, Hester, m. 1st, Benjamin Swett (" One Hundred and Sixty 
Allied Families," p. 277, 1647) ; 2d, Stephen Greenleaf, Sr. (Ibid., 
1679). 

Wing, Samuel, m. Hepzibah Hathaway. (Ibid., p. 144.) 

Wing, John, Sandwich, m. Deborah Batchelder, dau. Rev. Stephen 
Batchelder. (Ibid., p. 272.) 

Note. — Francis Swain went to Long Island; William remained at 
Hampton, New Hampshire; Richard, the only child of second wife, 
Jane, removed to New Jersey, and has many descendants there. 

10 



146 

Wing, Paul, m. Abigail "Wing. (Sandwich Friends Kecords, 
1763.) 

Wing, Zaccheus, m. Content Swift. (Ibid., 1731.) 

Note. — In recorded dates we often find two years given, — i.e., 1637- 
38. In what was known as old style, the year began March 25, and 
when the new or present style was adopted many were not pleased 
with the innovation ; recorders therefore accommodated themselves to 
the caprice of the people, and gave the date in accordance with both 
methods. This will account for any discrepancy covering not more 
than three months. 

Note. — William C. Folger, whose MSS. are here quoted, was Cor- 
responding Member of the New England Genealogical Society, and 
prepared a number of Nantucket Genealogical notes for Savage. 



INDEX. 



Alden Family, 93. 

Allen, Ann (Mrs. Edward Allen, dau. 
Joseph Coleman), 102. 

Allen, Edward, 102. 

Allen Family, 93. 

Allen, Rachel (Mrs. Thomas Star- 
buck, dau. Edward Allen), 101, 
102. 

Andros, Edmund, Governor, 71. 

Austin, Abigail (Mrs. Richard Aus- 
tin), 39. 

Austin, Deborah (Mrs. John Coffin, 
dau. Joseph Austin), 30, 85, 86, 95, 
105, 112, 113. 

Austin, Joseph, 30, 39, 86, 95, 101, 
105, 113, 117. 

Austin, Mary (Mrs. Richard Gardner, 
2d, dau. Joseph Austin), 100, 101, 
113, 116, 117. 

Austin, Richard, 39. 

Austin, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Austin, 
dau. Edward Starbuck), 22, 30, 86, 
95, 101, 105, 113, 117. 

Bache, Richard, 49. 

Bache, Sarah (Mrs. Richard Bache), 
49. 

Bachiler. See Batchilder. 

Balch, Anice (Mrs. John Balch), 98. 

Balch, Benjamin, 98. 

Balch, John, 98. 

Balch, Ruth (Mrs. John Drinker, 
dau. Benjamin Balch), 97, 98. 

Balch, Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin Balch), 
98. 

Barker, Abraham, 90. 

Barker, Bethiah (Mrs. Samuel Bar- 
ker), 52, 90. 

Barker, Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Bar- 
ker), 115. 

Barker Family, 52, 90, 92, 115. 

Barker, Francis, 90. 

Barker, Isaac, 52, 90, 115. 

Barker, Jacob, 52, 54, 90, 106. 

Barker, James, 90. 

Barker, Jtdidah (Mrs. Robert Bar- 
ker), 90, 92. 

Barker, Jedidah (dau. Robert Bar- 
ker), 90. 



Barker, Judith (dau. Robert Barker), 
52, 90. 

Barker, Judith (Mrs. Isaac Barker, 
1st), 90, 115. 

Barker, Lydia (Mrs. Francis Swain, 
Jr., dau. Robert Barker), 90, 93. 

Barker, Margaret (dau. Robert Bar- 
ker), 90. 

Barker, Mary (dau. Robert Barker), 
90. 

Barker, Prince, 115. 

Barker, Robert, 52, 54, 90, 92, 106. 

Barker, Samuel, 52, 90. 

Barker, Sarah (Mrs. Robert Barker, 
widow Hezikiah Gardner, dau. 
Abishai Folger), 52, 90, 92. 

Barker, Sarah (dau. Robert Barker), 
90. 

Barkers, Nantucket, 115. 

Barnard or Bernard, Bethiah (Mrs. 
John Barnard), 45. 

Barnard, Eleanor (Mrs. Thomas Bar- 
nard), 45, 91, 114. 

Barnard Family, 46. 

Barnard, Joanna (Mrs. Robert Bar- 
nard), 45, 91, 115. 

Barnard, John, 45. 

Barnard, Maryi (Mrs. Nathaniel Bar- 
nard, dau. Robert Barnard), 45, 91, 
114, 115. 

Barnard, Mary2 (Mrs. John Folger, 
dau. Nathaniel Barnard), 90, 91, 
114. 

Barnard motto on coat of arms, 
45. 

Barnard, Nathaniel, 45, 91, 114. 

Barnard, Reuben, 45. 

Barnard, Robert, 13, 15, 45, 48, 91, 
92, 94, 115. 

Barnard, Thomas, 10, 11, 13, 45, 91, 
92, 94, 114, 115. 

Barnes, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Coffin, dau. Henry Barnes), 34. 

Barnes, Henry, 34. 

Barney, Benjamin, 105. 

Barney, Elizabeth (Mrs. William 
Rotch), 104, 105, 106. 

Barney, Lydia (Mrs. Benjamin Bar- 
ney), 105. 

147 



148 



Batchilder or Bachiler, Abigail (Mrs. 
Richard Austin), 39. 

Batchilder, Deborah (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Batchilder), 39. 

Batchilder, Deborah ( Mrs. John Wing, 
dau. Rev. Stephen Batchilder), 38, 
110. 

Batchilder, Francis, 39. 

Batchilder, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Batchilder), 39. 

Batchilder, Nathaniel, 39. 

Batchilder, Rev. Stephen, 37, 38, 39, 
89, 99, 100, 102, 103, 109, 110, 111. 

Batchilder, Theodate (Mrs. Christo- 
pher Hussey, dau. Rev. Stephen 
Batchilder), 37, 38, 88, 89, 99, 101, 

102, 108, 109, 110. 
Bates, James, 74. 

Beebe, Hannah (Mrs. Giles E. Stan- 
ton), 117. 

Biron or Bjorne, 7. 

Bishop, John, 13. 

Bon Coeur, 109. 

Bradford, Jael (Mrs. Joseph Brad- 
ford, dau. Peter Hobart), 59, 

Bradford, Joseph, 59. 

Brayton, Judge, 86. 

Brayton, Love (Mrs. Judge Brayton), 
86. 

Brewster, Love, 52. 

Brewster, Sarah (Mrs. Love Brewster, 
dau. William Collier), 62. 

Brown, Abial (Mrs. Sylvanus Hus- 
sey, dau. John Brown, Jr.), 88, 89. 

Brown, Abigail (Mrs, Hezidiah Cart- 
wright), 84. 

Brown, Hannah (Mrs. John Brown, 
of Salem), 58, 59, 89, 91. 

Brown, John, Elder, 41, 58, 89, 91. 

Brown, John, of Salem, 58, 59, 89, 
91, 

Brown, Rachel (Mrs, John Brown), 
58, 89, 91. 

Brown, Rachel (Mrs, James Chase, 
dau. John Brown), 91. 

Buffum Connection, 114. 

Buffum, David, 114, 115. 

BuiBFum Family, 115. 

Buffum, Hepzibah (Mrs, David Buf- 
fum), 114, 115. 

BuflFum, Joshua, 62, 63, 

Bunker, Ann (Mrs. Joseph Coleman), 
102. 

Bunker, Ann (Mrs. Nathaniel Pad- 
daok, dau. William Bunker), 93, 

103, 108, 109, 

Bunker, Desire (Mrs. Zachariah Bun- 
ker), 107. 



Bunker, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan 
Bunker), 85, 96, 108. 

Bunker, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathan 
Bunker, 2d), 107, 109. 

Bunker Family, 107. 

Bunker, George, 31, 46, 109, 

Bunker, Hepsibeth (Mrs. Nathan 
Bunker), 107. 

Bunker, Jane (Mrs. George Bunker), 
31, 109. 

Bunker, Jane (Mrs. Richard Swain, 
widow George Bunker), 46. 

Bunker, Jonathan, 85, 96, 108. 

Bunker, Lydia (Mrs. Shubael Bun- 
ker), 107. 

Bunker, Martha (Mrs. Stephen Hus- 
sey), 38, 88, 98, 101, 108, 110. 

Bunker, Mary (Mrs. Stephen CofiBn, 
dau. George Bunker), 31, 101, 116, 

Bunker, Mary (Mrs, William Bun- 
ker), 85, 93, 96, 103, 108, 109, 

Bunker, Mary Clement, 109. 

Bunker, Nathan, Jr., 107, 109. 

Bunker, Nathan, Sr., 107. 

Bunker, Priscilla, 29. 

Bunker, Ruth (Mrs. Richard Coffin), 
85, 95, 96. 

Bunker, Shubael, 107. 

Bunker, William, 85, 93, 96, 103, 108, 
109. 

Bunker, Zachariah, 107, 108, 

Burroughs, Edward, 64, 66, 

Butler Family, 93. 

Butler, William Allen, 54, 

Cartwright, Abigail (Mrs, Hezidiah 
Cartwright), 84, 

Cartwright, Bethiah (Mrs, Sampson 
Cartwright), 84, 

Cartwright, Hezidiah, 84, 

Cartwright, James, 84. 

Cartwright, Lydia (Mrs. Pelog Mitch- 
ell, Sr., dau. James Cartwright), 
83, 84, 86, 87. 

Cartwright, Love (Mrs. James Cart- 
wright), 84, 

Cartwright, Sampson, 84. 

Chase, Isaac, Lieutenant, 91, 92, 94. 

Chase, James, 91. 

Chase, Jedidah (Mrs. Robert Barker, 
dau. James Chase), 90, 91, 92. 

Chase, Mary (Mrs. Lieutenant Isaac 
Chase), 91, 

Chase, Rachel (Mrs, James Chase), 
91. 

Christisen, Wenlook, 67, 

Church, Sarah (Mrs. Nathan Folger), 
95. 



149 



Clement, Elizabeth Thorne (Mrs. Na- 
than Bunker), 107, 109. 

Coffin, Abigail (dau. Edward Star- 
buck), 22, 27. 

Coffin, Anna {Mrs. Thomas Coffin), 

94, 97. 

Coffin, Anna (Mrs. Solomon Gardner, 
dau. Stephen Coffin), 100, 101, 116. 

Coffin, Benjamin, 94. 

Coffin, Damaris (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Coffin), 94. 

Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin Cof- 
fin), 94. 

Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Tristram Star- 
buck, dau. Samuel Coffin), 112. 

Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Lieutenant 
John Coffin, dau. Joseph Austin), 
30, 85, 95, 105, 112. 

Coffin, Deborah (dau. Tristram Cof- 
fin. Died in infancy), 28. 

Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Thomas Macy^, 
dau. Lieutenant John Coffin), 84, 
85, 94, 95, 105. 

Coffin, Dinah (Mrs. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Jr., dau. James Coffin), 87, 
88, 99, 102, 103, 110, 112, 113, 114. 

Coffin, Dionis (Mrs. Tristram Coffin, 
Sr.), 24, 40, 43, 84, 85, 88, 89, 94, 

95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 
108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 
115, 116. 

Coffin, Eliza (Mrs. Benjamin H. 
Yarnall), 97. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Captain Ste- 
phen Greenleaf, dau. Tristram Cof- 
fin, Sr.), 28, 40, 43. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan 
Bunker, 2d), 85, 86, 96, 108. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Coffin, dau. Henry Barnes), 34. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Sir Isaac Cof- 
fin, dau. T. Greenly, Esq.), 34, 35. 

Coffin, Hope (Mrs. John Coffin, Esq.), 
85, 95. 

Coffin, Isaac, Sir, 33, 34, 35, 36, 

Coffin, James, 1.3, 15, 19, 28, 30, 31, 
34, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 
100, 103, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 
114, 115. 

Coffin, Joan (mother Tristram Coffin, 
Sr.), 24. 

Coffin, John (died in infancy. Son 
Tristram Coffin), 28. 

Coffin, John, Esq., 96, 97. 

Coffin, John, Lieutenant, 30, 31, 33, 
85, 86, 95, 97, 105, 107, 112, 113. 

Coffin, Joseph, 32. 

Coffin, Joshua, 32, 38, 43. 



Coffin, Judith (Mrs. Francis Macy, 
dau. Richard Coffin), 84, 85. 

Coffin, Judith (Mrs. Tristram Coffin, 
Jr., dau. Edmund Greenleaf), 27. 

Coffin, Lucretia (Mrs. James Mott, 
dau. Thomas Coffin), 97. 

Coffin, Margaret (Mrs. Joseph Coffin, 
dau. Benjamin Morse), 32. 

Coffin, Martha (Mrs. Peter Pelham, 
dau. Thomas Coffin), 98. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr., dau. Tristram Coffin, Sr.), 
23, 28, 29, 84, 87, 88, 89, 99, 101, 
102, 10.3, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 
113, 114, 115. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. James Coffin, dau. 
John Severance), 28, 85, 86, 88, 94, 

96, 99, 103, 108, 110, 113, 114. 
Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Stephen Coffin, 

dau. George Bunker), 31, 101, 116. 
Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Solomon Temple, 

dau. Thomas Coffin), 98. 
Coffin, Miriam (Mrs. Samuel Coffin), 

112. 
Coffin, Nathaniel, 32, 33, 34, 94. 
Coffin, origin of name, 24. 
Coffin, Peleg, Esq., 8. 
Coffin, Peter, 10, 11, 13, 22, 27, 31, 48. 
Coffin, Richard, 24, 85. 95. 
Coffin, Ruth (Mrs. William Folger, 

dau. Richard Coffin), 95. 
Coffin, Ruth (Mrs. Richard Coffin), 

85, 95. 
Coffin, Sally (dau. Thomas Coffin), 

97. 
Coffin, Samuel, 112. 
Coffin School, 33. 
Coffin, Stephen, 31, 101, 116. 
Coffin, Thomas, 48, 94, 97, 98. 
Coffin or Cofi"yn, Tristram, Sr., 9, 10, 

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 24, 25, 26, 

27, 28, 31, 32, 34, 40, 43, 48, 56, 

84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 94, 95, 96, 

97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 
108, 109. 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 
115, 116, 117. 

Coffin, Tristram, Jr., 13, 15, 27, 31, 
32, 41, 48. 

Coffin, William, 34. 

Coggeshall Connection with Nan- 
tucket, 112. 

Coggeshall, Deborah (Mrs. Job Cogge- 
shall), 112, 113. 

Coggeshall, Job, 112, 113. 

Colcord, Edward, 21. 

Coleman, Andrew, 52. 

Coleman, Ann (Mrs. Edward Allen, 
dau. Joseph Coleman), 102. 



150 



Coleman, Ann (Mrs. Joseph Cole- 
man), 102. 

Coleman, Barnabas, 88. 

Coleman, Elihu, 29. 

Coleman, Enoch, 52. 

Coleman, Hepzibah (Mrs. John Rus- 
sell, Jr., dau. Barnabas Coleman), 
87, 88, 89. 

Coleman, Isaac, 19. 

Coleman, Jeremiah, 52. 

Coleman, Joanna (Mrs. John Cole- 
man, Sr.), 52, 88. 

Coleman, John, Jr., 88. 

Coleman, John, Sr., 52, 88. 

Coleman, Joseph, 102. 

Coleman, Lydia, (Mrs. William 
Mitchell, dau. Andrew Coleman), 
52. 

Coleman, Nathaniel, 29. 

Coleman, Phebe (Mrs. Barzillai 
Folger), 50. 

Coleman, Priscilla (Mrs. John Cole- 
man, Jr.), 88. 

Coleman, Rachel (Mrs. Barnabas 
Coleman), 88. 

Coleman, Susanna (Mrs. Thomas 
Coleman), 102. 

Coleman, Thomas, U, 15, 44, 88, 89, 
102, 103. 

Collier, Elizabeth (Mrs. Constant 
Southworth, dau. William Collier), 
52. 

Collier, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Prenee, 
dau. William Collier), 62, 91. 

Collier, Rebecca (dau. William 
Collier), 52. 

Collier, Sarah (Mrs. Love Brewster, 
dau. William Collier), 52. 

Collier, William, 52, 53, 91, 92, 94, 
115. 

Cope, Caroline, R. (Mrs. Edward 
Yarnall, dau. Thomas Pim Cope), 
97. 

Cope, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Pim 
Cope), 97. 

Cope, Thomas Pim, 97. 

Cornell, Ezra, 45. 

Cutts, John, 37. 

Dahlgren, Captain Charles Bunker, 
109. 

Davis Family, 49. 

Deed of Purchase, 11. 

Dole, Sarah (Mrs. Edward Green- 
leaf), 40, 43. 

Dongan, Thomas, Governor, 31. 

Drinker, Henry, 97. 

Drinker, John, 97. 



Drinker, Joseph, 97. 

Drinker, Mary (Mrs. Henry Drinker), 

97. 
Drinker, Mary (Mrs. Joseph Drinker), 

97. 
Drinker, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Pim 

Cope, dau. John Drinker), 97. 
Drinker, Rachel (Mrs. John Drinker), 

97. 
Drinker, Ruth (Mrs. John Drinker, 

dau. Benjamin Balch), 97. 
Dyer, Mary, 67. 

Earle Family, 98, 100. 

Earle, John Milton, 98, 99. 

Earle, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Earle), 

99, 100. 
Earle, Sarah (Mrs. John Milton 

Earle), 99. 
Earle, Thomas, 98, 99, 100. 
Endicot, John, Esq., 63. 
Eric (Earl of Norway), 7. 

Farnum Family, 93. 

Farrar, Eliza (Mrs. Professor Farrar), 

106. 
Farrar Family, 93. 
Farrar, Professor, 106. 
Fforrett, James, 11. 
Folger, Abiah (Mrs. Josiah Franklin), 

49. 
Folger, Abishai, 90, 92, 95. 
Folger, Ann (Mrs. James Mitchell, 

dau. Jethro Folger), 114. 
Folger, Anna (Mrs. Thomas CoflBn, 

dau. William Folger), 94, 95, 97, 

99. 
Folger, Barzillai. 50. 
Folger, Benjiimin Franklin, 9. 
Folger, Betliiah (Mrs. John Barnard, 

dau. Peter Folger), 45. 
Folger, Bethiah (Mrs. Samuel Barker, 

dau. John Folger), 52. 90. 
Folger, Charles James, 54. 
Folger, Dorcas (Mrs. Joseph Pratt, 

dau. Peter Folger), 84, 85. 
Folger or Foulger, Eleazer, 14, 15, 

49, 50, 95. 
Folger, Eleazer, Jr., 49. 
Folger, Elizabeth (Mrs. Walter Fol- 
ger, dau. Thomas Starbuck), 50. 
Folger, E.xperience (Mrs. John Swain, 

2d, dau. Peter Folger), 93. 
Folger Family, 47, 49. 
Folger, Mr. George Howland, 34. 
Folger, Jethro, 114. 
Folger, Joanna (Mrs. John Coleman, 

Sr., dau. Peter Folger), 52, 88. 



151 



Folger, John, 47, 52, 90, 114. 
Folger, Mary (Mrs. Peter Folger), 

49, 85, 88, 90, 95. 

Folger, Mary (Mrs. Jethro Folger, 

dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr.), 114. 
Folger, Mary (Mrs. John Folger), 

90, 114. 
Folger, Nathan, 50, 95. 
Folger or Foulger, Peter, 9, 13, 14, 

45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 68, 85, 

86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 98, 94, 95, 97, 

100, 114, 115. 
Folger, Phebe (Mrs. Barzillai Folger), 

50. 
Folger, Phebe (Mrs. Uriel Hussey), 

98, 99. 
Folger, Ruth (Mrs, William Folger), 

95. 
Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Abishai Folger), 

90, 92, 95, 96. 
Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Eleazer Folger), 

50, 95. 

Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Nathan Folger), 
95. 

Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Tristram Hus- 
sey), 98, 99. 

Folger, Walter, Jr., 50, 51. 

Folger, Walter, Sr., 50. 

Folger, William C, 50, 95. 

Franciscus, Mr. Albert H., 104. 

Franciscus, Susan (Mrs. Albert H. 
Franciscus, dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 
104. 

Franklin, Abiah (Mrs. Josiah Frank- 
lin, dau. Peter Folger), 49. 

Franklin, Benjamin, 47, 49. 

Franklin, Deborah Read (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Franklin), 49. 

Franklin, Josiah, 49. 

Franklin, Sarah (Mrs. Richard 
Bache, dau. Benjamin Franklin), 
49. 

Furber, William, 21. 

Gardiner, Lion, 55. 

Gardiner, Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin 
Balch), 98. 

Gardiner, Thomas, Governor, 55, 60, 
85, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 
97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 108, 
109, 113, 116, 117. 

Gardner, Anna (Mrs. Solomon Gard- 
ner), 100, 116. 

Gardner, Deborah (Mrs. John Macy, 
Sr., dau. Richard Gardner), 20, 84, 
85, 87, 88, 94, 95, 105, 116. 

Gardner, Dinah (Mrs. David Macy, 
dau. Solomon Gardner), 116. 



Gardner, Dorcas (Mrs. Dr. Paul 
Swift, dau. Zenas Gardner), 100, 
103, 104. 

Gardner, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen 
Gorham, dau. James Gardner), 

101, 102, 108. 
Gardner, Hezikiah, 90, 92. 
Gardner, Hope (Mrs. John Coffin, 

Esq., dau. Richard Gardner), 85, 
95, 96, 

Gardner, James, 102, 108. 

Gardner, John, 55, 56, 57, 58, 89, 91, 
92, 94. 

Gardner, Mary, 77. 

Gardner, Mary (Mrs. James Gard- 
ner), 102, 108. 

Gardner, Mary (Mrs. Richard Gard- 
ner, 2d), 100, 113, 116. 

Gardner, Miriam (Mrs. Samuel Cof- 
fin, dau. Richard Gardner), 112, 
113. 

Gardner, Paul, 100. 

Gardner, Priscilla (Mrs. Captain John 
Gardner), 89, 91. 

Gardner, Rachel (Mrs. John Brown, 
Jr., dau. John Gardner), 58, 89, 91. 

Gardner, Rachel (Mrs. Paul Gardner), 
100. 

Gardner, Richard, Sr., 15, 20, 55, 56, 
60, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 97, 100, 

102, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 113, 
116, 117. 

Gardner, Richard, 2d, 100, 113, 116. 

Gardner, Sarah (Mrs. Eleazer Fol- 
ger), 60, 95, 96. 

Gardner, Sarah (Mrs. Richard Gard- 
ner, Sr.), 20, 65, 60, 86, 88, 95, 96, 
100, 102, 106, 108, 113, 116. 

Gardner, Sarah (Mrs. Robert Barker, 
widow Hezikiah Gardner, dau. 
Abishai Folger), 52, 90, 92. 

Gardner, Solomon, 100, 116. 

Gardner, Susanna (Mrs. Zenas Gard- 
ner), 100. 

Gardner, Zenas, 100. 

Garrison, William Lloyd, 32. 

Gayer, Damaris (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Coffin), 94, 95. 

Gayer, Dorcas (Mrs. Jethro Star- 
buck, dau. William Gayer), 84, 101, 
102, 105, 106. 

Gayer, Dorcas (Mrs. William Gayer, 
dau. Edward Starbuck), 84, 95, 
102, 106. 

Gayer, William, 84. 95, 102, 106. 

Gibbons Family, 100. 

Giles, Sarah (Mrs. Zaccheus Macy, 
2d, dau. Giles E. Stanton), 117. 



152 



Gillespie, Mrs. E. D., 49. 

Godfrey, Jane (Mrs. George Bunker), 

31. 
Goldsmith, Ralph, 64, 65. 
Gorges, Sir Fernando or Ferdinand, 

9. 
Gorham, Desire (Mrs. Zacariah 

Bunker, dau. Shubael Gorham), 

107, 108. 
Gorham, Eliza, 29. 
Gorham, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen 

Gorham), 101, 108. 
Gorham, Puella (Mrs. Shubael Gor- 
ham), 108. 
Gorham, Shubael, 108. 
Gorham, Stephen, 101, 108. 
Gorham, Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Pad- 

dack, dau. Stephen Gorham), 101, 

108. 
Gosnold, Biography, 8. 
Gottier, Mary (Mrs. Henry Drinker), 

97. 
Grafton, Priscilla (Mrs. Captain John 

Gardner), 89, 91. 
Grasse, Comte de, 34. 
Gray, Alice, (Mrs. Sylvanus Hussey, 

Jr.), 110. 
Greenleaf, Edmund, 27, 28, 40, 43. 
Greenleaf, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen 

Greenleaf, dau. Tristram Coffin), 

28, 31, 40, 43. 
Greenleaf Family, 40. 
Greenleaf, Hester (Mrs. Stephen 

Greenleaf, dau. Nathaniel AVeare), 

46. 
Greenleaf, Margaret (Mrs. Tristram 

Greenleaf), 43. 
Greenleaf, Nathaniel, 43. 
Greenleaf, Sarah (Mrs, Edmund 

Greenleaf), 27, 40, 43. 
Greenleaf, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Whit- 
tier, dau. Nathaniel Greenleaf), 

43. 
Greenleaf, Stephen, Lieutenant, 10, 

11, 13, 28, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 48. 
Greenleaf, Tristram, 43. 
Greenly, Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Sir 

Isaac Coffin, dau. T. Greenly, Esq.), 

35. 
Greenly, T., Esq., 35. 

Ham, John, 22. 

Harvey, Joanna (Mrs. Robert Bar- 
nard), 45. 91, 115. 

Hathaway Family, 110. 

Hathaway, Hepzibah (Mrs. Thomas 
Hathaway, dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck), 111, 112. 



Hathaway, Hepzibah (Mrs. Samuel 

Wing, dau. Thomas Hathaway), 

111. 
Hathaway, Thomas, 111, 112. 
Hazzard, Anna (Mrs. Thomas Haz- 

zard), 106. 
Hazzard, Elizabeth, 106. 
Hazzard Family, 92. 
Hazzard, Thomas, 106. 
Herioff (Navigator), 7. 
Hobart, Abigail (dau. Rev. Peter 

Hobart, unmarried), 59. 
Hobart, Bathsheba (Mrs. Joseph 

Turner, dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 

59. 
Hobart, David, 59. 
Hobart, Edmund, 59, 89, 91, 92, 94. 
Hobart, Edmund, 2d, 59. 
Hobart, Elizabeth (Mrs. John Ripley, 

dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 59. 
Hobart or Hubberd Family, 68. 
Hobart, Gershom, 59. 
Hobart, Hannah, 1st (died soon), 

59. 
Hobart, Hannah (Mrs. John Brown, 

of Salem, dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 

58, 59, 89, 91. 
Hobart, Icabod, 59. 
Hobart, Israel, 59. 

Hobart, Jael (Mrs. Joseph Bradford, 

dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 59. 
Hobart, Japbet, 59. 
Hobart, Jeremiah, 59. 
Hobart, Joanna (Mrs. David Hobart, 

dau. Edmund Quincy), 59. 
Hobart, Joshua (son of Edmund 

Hobart), 59. 
Hobart, Joshua (son of Rev. Peter 

Hobart), 59. 
Hobart, Josiah, 59. 
Hobart, Lydia (Mrs. Captain Thomas 

Lincoln), 59. 
Hobart, Nehemiah, 59. 
Hobart, Rebecca, 59. 
Hobart, Rebecca (Mrs. Daniel Mason, 

dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 59. 
Hobart, Rebecca (Mrs. Rev. Peter 

Hobart), 59. 
Hobart or Hubberd, Rev. Peter, 58, 

59, 89, 91, 92, 94. 

Hobart, Sarah (Mrs. David Hobart), 
59. 

Hobart, Sarah (dau. Edmund Hobart), 
59. 

Hobart, Sarah (Mrs. Gershom Ho- 
bart), 59. 

Hobart, Sarah (Mrs. Israel Hobart, 
dau. Rev. William Wetherill), 59. 



153 



Hobart, Sarah (Mrs. Nehemiah 
Hobart), 59. 

Hobart, Thomas, 59. 

Hodge Family, 49. 

Holder, Christopher, 60, 115. 

Holder, Mary (Mrs. Peleg Slocum), 
115. 

Hopcot, Sarah (Mrs. Thomas Macy), 
20, 84, 85, 87, 93, 94, 96, 105, 108, 
116. 

Hopkins Family, 92. 

Howland, John, 104, 109. 

Humphrey Family, 49. 

Hussey, Abial (Mrs. Sylvanus Hus- 
sey), 88. 

Hussey, Abigail (dau. Stephen Hus- 
sey), 39. 

Hussey, Alice (Mrs. Sylvanus Hus- 
sey, Jr.), 110. 

Hussey, Batchelder or Bachiler, 39, 
98. 

Hussey, Christopher, 10, 11, 13, 37, 
38, 43, 44, 86, 88, 89, 99, 101, 103, 
108, 109, 110, 111. 

Hussey, Daniel, 39. 

Hussey, Deborah (Mrs. George Hus- 
sey), 98, 101. 

Hussey, George, 39, 98, 101. 

Hussey, Hepzibah (Mrs. Sylvanus 
Hussey, Sr.), 98, 101, 110. 

Hussey, Hulda (Mrs. John Smith), 
38, 

Hussey, John, 37, 38. 

Hussey, Joseph, 38. 

Hussey, Lydia (Mrs. Sylvanus Hus- 
sey, Jr.), 110, 111. 

Hussey, Martha (Mrs. Stephen Hus- 
sey), 38, 88, 98, 101, 108, 110. 

Hussey, Mary (dau. Christopher 
Hussey), 38. 

Hussey, Mary (Mrs. John Hussey), 
37. 

Hussey, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Earle, 
dau. Uriel Hussey), 99, 100. 

Hussey, Phebe (Mrs. Uriel Hussey), 
98. 

Hussey, Puella (Mrs. Shubael Gor- 
ham, dau. Stephen Hussey), 39, 
108. 

Hussey, Rachel (Mrs. Barnabas Cole- 
man, dau. Sylvanus Hussey), 88. 

Hussey, Rebecca (Mrs. John Hussey), 
38. 

Hussey, Robert, 43. 

Hussey, Sarah (Mrs. Tristram Hus- 
sey), 98. 

Hussey, Sarah (Mrs. John Milton 
Earle, dau. Tristram Hussey), 99. 



Hussey, Stephen, 38, 39, 78, 88, 98, 
99, 101, 103, 108, 109, 110, 111. 

Hussey, Susanna (Mrs. Zenas Gard- 
ner, dau. George Hussey), 100, 101. 

Hussey, Sylvanus, Jr., 110. 

Hussey, Sylvanus, Sr., 39, 88, 98, 
101, 110, 111. 

Hussey, Theodata (Mrs. Christopher 
Hussey, dau. Rev. Stephen Batch- 
ilder), 37, 38, 88, 99, 101, 108, 110. 

Hussey, Theodata (dau. Christopher 
Hussey), 38. 

Hussey, Theodata (dau. Stephen Hus- 
sey), 39. 

Hussey, Tristram, 98, 99. 

Hussey, Uriel, 98, 99. 

Ibrook, Richard, 59. 
Indian Deed, 13. 
Irwin Family, 49. 

Jackson, Sarah (Mrs. Nehemiah 

Hobart), 59. 
James, Duke of York, 57, 58. 
Janney, Mary (Mrs. Joseph Drinker), 

97. 
Johnson, Hannah (Mrs. Paul Wing 

Newhall), 111, 112. 
Joyce, Sarah (Mrs. David Hobart, 

second wife), 59. 

Kinsey, John, 76. 
Kirkbride Family, 93. 
Knight, Sir Georges, 11. 

Lamson, Edwin, 104. 

Lamson, Mary (Mrs. Edwin Lamson, 
dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 104. 

Lea & Bunker, 109. 

LeClerc (Coffin), 25. 

Leddra, W., 64, 67. 

Lief (Navigator), 7. 

Lincoln, Lydia (Mrs. Thomas Lin- 
coln, dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 59. 

Lincoln, Thomas, Captain, 59. 

Long, Robert, 41. 

Look, Thomas, 15. 

Lovelace, Francis, Governor, 16, 26, 
27, 55, 57, 59. 

Macy, Abigail (Mrs. Benjamin 

Stanton, dau. David Macy), 116, 

117. 
Macy, David, 116. 
Macy, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin 

CofiBn), 94. 
Macy, Deborah (Mrs. Daniel Russell, 

dau. John Macy), 87. 



154 



Macy, Deborah (Mrs. John Macy, 

Sr.), 20, 84, 87, 94, 105, 116. 
Macy, Deborah (Mrs. Thomas Macy'), 

84, 94, 105. 
Macy, Dinah (Mrs. David Macy), 

116. 
Macy, Francis, 84. 
Macy, George, 20. 
Macy, John, Jr., 116. 
Macy, John, Sr., 20, 84, 87, 94, 105, 

116. 
Macy, Judith (Mrs. Francis Macy), 

84. 
Macy, Judith (Mrs. John Macy, Jr.), 

116. 
Macy, Love (Mrs. James Cartwright, 

dau. Francis Macy), 84. 
Macy, Love (Mrs. Joseph Rotch, dau. 

Thomas MacyS), 104, 105. 
Macy, Mary (Mrs. William Bunker, 

dau. Thomas Macy), 85, 93, 96, 

103, 108, 109. 
Macy, Paul, 113. 
Macy, Samuel, 20. 
Macy, Sarah (Mrs. Thomas Macy), 

20, 84, 85, 87, 93, 94, 96, 105, 108, 

116. 
Macy, Sarah (Mrs. Zaccheus Macy, 

2d, dau. Giles E. Stanton), 117. 
Macy, signification of name, 20. 
Macy, Thomas, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 

19, 20, 22, 26, 44, 48, 84, 85, 86, 

87, 89, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 100, 

103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 113, 116, 

117. 
Macy, Thomas^, 94, 105. 
Macy, Zaccheus, 1st, 117. 
Macy, Zaccheus, 2d, 117. 
Mason, Daniel, 69. 
Mason, Rebecca (Mrs. Daniel Mason, 

dau. Rev. Peter Hobart), 59. 
Mather, Cotton, 48, 57. 
Mayhew, Experience, 71. 
Mayhew Family, 68. 
Mayhew, Jane (Mrs. Thomas May- 
hew, Jr.), 96. 
Mayhew, John, 70, 71. 
Mayhew, Jonathan, 71. 
Mayhew, Mary (Mrs. Paine Mayhew), 

96. 
Mayhew, Matthew, 70, 96. 
Mayhew, Paine, 96. 
Mayhew, Sarah (Mrs. Abishai Fol- 

ger), 90, 92, 95, 96. 
Mayhew, Simon, 68. 
Mayhew, Thomas, Sr., 9, 10, 11, 

12, 13, 48, 68, 69, 70, 92, 96, 97, 

100. 



Mayhew, Thomas, Jr., 15, 47, 68, 69, 
70, 92, 96, 97, 100. 

Mayhew, Thomas, 3d, 70, 71. 

Mellor Family, 93. 

Mitchell, Ann (Mrs. James Mitchell), 
114. 

Mitchell, Elizabeth (Mrs. Richard 
Mitchell, Jr.), 83, 115. 

Mitchell Family, 83. 

Mitchell, Hepzibah (Mrs. David Buf- 
fum, 1st, dau. James Mitchell), 
114, 115. 

Mitchell, James, 114, 115. 

Mitchell, Lydia (Mrs. Peleg Mitchell, 
Sr.), 83. 86, 87. 

Mitchell, Lydia (Mrs. William Mitch- 
ell), 51. 

Mitchell, Love (Mrs. Judge Brayton), 
S6. 

Mitchell, Maria, 51, 87. 

Mitchell, Mary (Mrs. Richard Mitch- 
ell, Sr.), 83. 

Mitchell, Mary (Mrs. Richard Mitch- 
ell, 3d), 83. 

Mitchell, Peleg, Sr., 83, 86, 87. 

Mitchell, Richard, Jr., 83, 115. 

Mitchell, Richard, Sr., 83. 

Mitchell, Richard, 3d, 83. 

Mitchell, William, 51. 

Mitchells, Nantucket, 115. 

Montague, John, 34. 

Moore, Katharine (Mrs. Marcus A. 
Moore), 104. 

Moore, Marcus A., 104. 

Morrell, Mary (Mrs. Peter Folger), 
85, 88, 90, 95. 

Jlorris, Wil., 64. 

Morse, Benjamin, 32. 

Morse, Margaret (Mrs. Joseph CoflSn, 
dau. Benjamin Morse), 32. 

Mott Family, 92, 94, 99. 

Mott, James, 97. 

Mott, Lucretia (Mrs. James Mott), 
97, 99. 

Newhall, Estes, 111. 

Newhall Family, 93. 

Newhall, Hannah (Mrs. Paul Wing 
Newhall), 111, 112. 

Newhall, Hepzibah (Mrs. Estes New- 
hall, dau. Paul and Abigail Wing), 
111. 

Newhall, Paul Wing, 111, 112. 

Nicolls, Mathias, 57. 

Norman, Lucy (Mrs. David Stanton), 
116. 

Noyes, Nicolas, 41. 

Noyes, Thomas, 41. 



155 



Paddack, Ann (Mrs. Nathaniel Pad- 
dack, dau. William Bunker), 93, 
103, 108. 

Paddack, Daniel, 101, 10.3, 108. 

Paddack, Deborah (Mr?. George Hus- 
sey, dau. Daniel Paddack), 98, 101. 

Paddack, Deborah (Mrs. Zechariah 
Paddack), 98. 

Paddack, Lydia (Mrs. Shubael Bun- 
ker, dau. Daniel Paddack), 107, 
108. 

Paddack, Mary (Mrs. Francis Swain, 
Sr., dau. Nathaniel Paddack), 93. 

Paddack, Nathaniel, 93, 103, 108. 

Paddack, Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Pad- 
dack), 101, 108. 

Paddack, Zechariah, 98. 

Paine, Jane (Mrs. Thomas May hew, 
Jr.), 96. 

Pelham, Martha (Mrs. Peter Pelham, 
dau. Thomas Coffin), 98. 

Pelham, Peter, 98. 

Pepper Family, 49. 

Perkins, Mary (Mrs. Lieutenant Isaac 
Chase), 91. 

Perry, Commodore, 49. 

Perry Family, 49. 

Pickard, S. f ., 43. 

Pierce, Daniel, 41. 

Pierce, David, 41. 

Phelps, Nicholas, 62. 

Phillips, Elizabeth (Mrs. John E. 
Phillips, dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 104. 

Phillips, Mr. John E., 104. 

Pike or Pyke Family, 44. 

Pike, Robert, 13, 15, 19, 44. 

Pike, William, 10, 11. 

Pile, William, 48. 

Pinkham, Hebsibeth (Mrs. Nathan 
Bunker'), 107. 

Piper, Margaret (Mrs. Tristram 
Greenleaf), 43. 

Pratt, Bethiah (Mrs. Sampson Cart- 
wright, dau. Joseph Pratt), 84. 

Pratt, Dorcas (Mrs. Joseph Pratt), 84. 

Pratt, Joseph, 84. 

Prence, Judith (Mrs. Isaac Barker, 
dau. Thomas Prence), 52, 90, 91. 

Prence, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Prence, 
dau. William Collier), 62, 91. 

Prence, Thomas, Governor, 52, 53, 54, 
91, 92, 94, 115. 

Proprietors, Associates, 15. 

Proprietors, Nine original, 10. 

Quincy, Edmund, 59. 
Quincy, Joanna (Mrs. David Hobart, 
dau. Edmund Quincy), 59. 



Rankin, Mary (Mrs. Paine Mayhew), 
96. 

Rawson, Edward, 66. 

Read, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin 
Franklin), 49. 

Read, Sarah (Mrs. Richard Bache, 
dau. Benjamin Franklin), 49. 

Reynear, Rachel (Mrs. John Drink- 
er), 97. 

Reynolds, Katharine (Mrs. Edward 
Starbuck), 21, 27, 28, 84, 86, 87, 
88, 95, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 
109, 112, 113, 114, 117. 

Richardson, John, 72, 115. 

Ripley, Elizabeth (Mrs. John Ripley, 
dau. Peter Hobart), 59. 

Ripley, John, 59. 

Robinson, William, 17, 67. 

Rodman, Anna, 106. 

Rodman, Samuel, 106, 

Rolfe, John, 48. 

Rotch, Benjamin, 106. 

Rotch, Eliza (dau. Benjamin Rotch), 
106, 107. 

Rotch, Elizabeth (Mrs. William 
Rotch), 104, 106. 

Rotch Family, 93, 104. 

Rotch, Joseph, 104, 106. 

Rotch, Love (Mrs. Joseph Rotch), 
104. 

Rotch, Mary, 106. 

Rotch, William, 104, 106. 107. 

Russell, Daniel, 87. 

Russell, Deborah (Mrs. Daniel Rus- 
sell), 87. 

Russell Family, 87. 

Russell, Hepzibah (Mrs. John Rus- 
sell, Jr.), 87, 89. 

Russell, John, Jr., 87, 89. 

Russell, John, Sr., 87. 

Russell, Ruth (Mrs. John Russell, 
Sr.), 87. 



Salter, William, 66. 

Sanborn, John, 38. 

Sanborn, Stephen, 38. 

Sanborn, William, 38. 

Schonberg, Baron, 93. 

Searle, Edward, 12. 

Sears, Deborah (Mrs. Zechariah Pad- 
dack, dau. Richard Sears), 98. 

Sears, Dorothy (Mrs. Richard Sears), 
98. 

Sears, Richard, 98. 

Severance, Abigail (Mrs. John Sever- 
ance), 28. 

Severance, John, 28. 



156 



Severance, Mary (Mrs. James CoflSn, 
dau. John Severance), 28, 85, 86, 
88, 94, 96, 99, 103, 108, 110, 113, 
114. 

Shattuck, Damaris, 60. 

Shattuek Family, 60. 

Shattuck, Retire, 66. 

Shattuck, Return, 66. 

Shattuck, Samuel, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 
67. 

Shattuck, Sarah (Mrs. Richard Gard- 
ner, Sr., dau. Samuel Shattuck), 
20, 55, 60, 85, 88, 95, 96, 100, 102, 
105, 108, 113, 116. 

Sherburne (original name of Nan- 
tucket), 15. 

Sibley, Mark II., 54. 

Sigourney Famil}', 93. 

Slocum, Elizabeth, 115. 

Slocum, Mary (Mrs. Peleg Slocum), 
115. 

Slocum, Peleg, 72, 75, 77, 115. 

Smith, Deborah (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Batchilder), 39. 

Smith or Smyth, Edward, 22. 

Smith, Hulda (Mrs. John Smith, dau. 
Christopher Hussey), 38. 

Smith, John, 12, 13, 15, 38, 48. 

Somerby, Henry, 27. 

Somerby, Judith (Mrs. Tristram 
Coffin, Jr., widow Henry Somerby, 
dau. Edmund Greenleaf), 27. 

Southwick, Cassandra, 62, 63. 

Southwick, Josiah, 62. 

Southwick, Lawrence, 62, 63. 

Southworth, Constant, 62. 

Southworth, Elizabeth (Mrs. Constant 
Southworth, dau. William Collier), 
52. 

Stanton, Abigail (Mrs. Benjamin 
Stanton, dau. David Macy), 117. 

Stanton, Benjamin, 116, 117. 

Stanton Connection, 116. 

Stanton, David, 116. 

Stanton, Edwin Macy, 116, 117. 

Stanton, Giles E., 117. 

Stanton, Hannah (Mrs. Giles E. 
Stanton), 117. 

Stanton, Lucv (Mrs. David Stanton), 
116. 

Starbuck, Abigail (Mrs. Peter Cof- 
fin, dau. Edward Starbuck), 22, 
27. 

Starbuck, Deborah (Mrs. Tristram 
Starbuck), 112. 

Starbuck, Deborah (Mrs. Job Cogge- 
shall, dau. Tristram Starbuck), 112, 
113. 



Starbuck, Dinah (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Starbuck, Jr., dau. James Coffin), 
87, 99, 102, 110, 112, 114. 

Starbuck, Dorcas (Mrs. William 
Gayer, dau. Edward Starbuck), 14, 
84, 95, 102, 106. 

Starbuck, Dorcas (Mrs. Jethro Star- 
buck), 84, 101, 105. 

Starbuck, Edward, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19, 
21. 22, 23, 27, 28, 48, 84, 86, 87, 88, 
89, 95, 97, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 
106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 
114, 115, 117. 

Starbuck, Elizabeth (Mrs. Walter 
Folger, dau. Thomas Starbuck), 
50. 

Starbuck, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen 
Greenleaf, dau. Tristram Coffin, 
Sr.), 28, 31, 40, 43. 

Starbuck, Hepzibah (Mrs. Sylvanus 
Hussey, Sr., dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Jr.), 98, 99, 101, 102, 110. 

Starbuck, Hepzibah (Mrs. Thomas 
Hathaway, dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr.), 111. 

Starbuck, Jethro, 30, 84, 101, 105. 

Starbuck, Katharine (Mrs. Edward 
Starbuck), 21, 27, 28, 84, 86, 87, 88, 
95, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 109, 
110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117. 

Starbuck, Lydia (Mrs. Benjamin 
Barney, dau. Jethro Starbuck;, 
105. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs. James Gard- 
ner, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr.), 
102, 103, 108, 109. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs. Jethro Folger, 
dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr.), 
114. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Starbuck, Sr., dau. Tristram Coffin, 
Sr.), 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 72, 75, 76, 
77, 78, 84, 87, 88, 99, 101, 102, 103, 
105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs, Richard Mitch- 
ell, 3d, dau. Jethro Starbuck), 83, 
84. 

Starbuck, Mary (dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck. Sr.), 103. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Jr., 72, 75, 77, 
87, 99, 102, 110, 112, 114. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Sr., 15, 23, 28, 
29, 30, 48, 75, 77, 84, 87, 88, 99, 
101, 102, 103, 105, 109, 110, 111, 
112, 114. 

Starbuck, Priscilla (Mrs. John Cole- 
man, Jr., dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck), 88. 



157 



Starbuck, Rachel (Mrs. Paul Gard- 
ner, dau. Thomas Starbuck), 100, 
101. 

Starbuck, Rachel (Mrs. Thomas Star- 
buck), 101. 

Starbuck, Ruth (Mrs. John Russell, 
Sr., dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr.), 
87. 

Starbuck, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Aus- 
tin, dau. Edward Starbuck), 22, 30, 
80, 95, 101, 105, 113, 117. 

Starbuck, signification of name, 23. 

Starbuck, Thomas, 50, 101. 

Starbuck, Tristram, 112. 

Stephenson, Marmaduke, 17, 67. 

Stevens, Dionis (Mrs. Tristram Cof- 
fin, Sr., dau. Robert Stevens), 24, 
40, 43, 84, 85, 88, 89, 94, 95, 96, 
97, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 109, 
110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116. 

Stevens, Robert, 24. 

Steward, Eben, 29. 

Story, Thomas, 72, 75, 115. 

Swain, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Swain), 46. 

Swain, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
AVeare, dau. Richard Swain), 45, 
46. 

Swain, Elizabeth (Mrs. Richard 
Swain), 93. 

Swain, Experience (Mrs. John Swain, 
2d), 93. 

Swain Family, 93. 

Swain, Francis, Jr., 93. 

Swain, Francis, Sr., 93. 

Swain, Jane (Mrs. Richard Swain, 
widow George Bunker), 45, 46. 

Swain or Swayne, John, 1st, 10, 11, 
13, 45, 46, 48, 78, 93. 

Swain, John, 2d, 93. 

Swain, John, 3d, 93. 

Swain, Lydia (Mrs. Francis Swain, 
Jr.), 93. 

Swain, Mary (Mrs. Francis Swain, 
Sr.), 93. 

Swain, Mary (Mrs. John Swain, 1st, 
dau. Nathaniel Wyer), 45, 46, 93. 

Swain, Mary (Mrs. John Swain, 3d), 
93. 

Swain or Swayne, Richard, 10, 11, 
13, 45, 46, 48, 93. 

Swett, Benjamin, 46. 

Swett, Hester (Mrs. Benjamin Swett, 
dau. Nathaniel Weare), 46. 

Swett, Mary (Mrs. John Swain, 3d), 
93. 

Swift, Content (Mrs. Zaccheus Wing), 
111. 



Swift, Dorcas (Mrs. Dr. Paul Swift), 
100, 103, 104. 

Swift, Elizabeth (Mrs. John E. Phil- 
lips, dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 104. 

Swift Family, 100. 

Swift, Katharine (Mrs. (1st) Dr. Mar- 
cus A. Moore; Mrs. (2d) Robert 
Wharton; dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 
104. 

Swift, Mary (Mrs. Edwin Lamson, 
dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 104. 

Swift, Dr. Paul, 100, 103, 104. 

Swift, Susan (Mrs. Albert H. Fran- 
ciscus, dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 104. 

Temple, Mary (Mrs. Solomon Tem- 
ple), 98. 

Temple, Solomon, 98. 

Thatcher, Dorothy (Mrs. Richard 
Sears), 98. 

Tilley, John, 104, 109. 

Tripp, Elizabeth (Mrs. Richard 
Mitchell, Jr.), 83, 115. 

Turner, Bathsheba (Mrs. Joseph 
Turner, dau. Peter Hobart), 59. 

Turner, Joseph, 59. 

Van Leer Family, 100. 
Vane, Sir Harry, 44. 
Vines, Richard, 11. 

Walderne, Richard, 21. 

Walter and Janney Families, 113. 

Wanackmanack (Indian), 12, 14, 15. 

Wanackmanack Receipt, 14. 

Ward Family, 93. 

Wawinnesit (Indian), 13. 

Weare, Weir, Weyer, Wier, Wire, 
Wyer, 46. 

Weare, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Weare*, dau. Richard Swain), 45, 
46. 

Weare Family, 46. 

Weare or Wire, Hester (Mrs. Benja- 
min Swett), 46. 

M''eare, Mary (Mrs. John Swain, 1st, 
dau. Nathaniel Wier), 45, 46, 93. 

Weare, Nathaniel, 45, 46. 

Weare, Nathaniel, 2d, 46. 

Weare, Nathaniel, 3d, 46. 

Weare, Peter, 45, 46. 

Weare, Robert, 46. 

Webster, Daniel, 39. 

Wetherill, Sarah (Mrs. Israel Hobart, 
dau. Rev. William Wetherill), 59. 

Wetherill, William, Rev., 59. 

Wharton, Edward, 17, 18. 

Wharton Family, 93. 



158 



Wharton, Katharine (Mrs. Robert 
Wharton, dau. Dr. Paul Swift), 
104. 

Wharton, Robert, 104. 

White Family, 100. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 43. 

Whittier, Joseph, 2d, 43. 

Whittier, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Whit- 
tier, 2d, dau. Nathaniel Greenleaf), 
43. 

Wiggan, Captain Thomas, 22. 

Wiggins, Thomas, 21, 22. 

William, Earl of Sterling, 9, 10. 

Wing, Abigail (Mrs. Paul Wing), 
111. 

Wing Connection, 110. 

Wing, Content (Mrs. Zacoheus Wing), 
111. 

Wing, Deborah (Mrs. John Wing, 
dau. Rev. Stephen Batchilder), 38, 
110. 

Wing, Hepzibah (Mrs. Estes New- 
hall, dau. Paul Wing), 111. 

Wing, Hepzibah (Mrs. Samuel Wing), 
111. 

Wing, John, 38, 110. 

Wing, Lydia (Mrs. Sylvanus Hussey, 
Jr., dau. Samuel Wing), 110, 111. 



Wing, Paul, 111. 

Wing, Samuel, 111. 

Wing, Zacoheus, 111. 

Winthrop, Governor, 44. 

Winthrop, John, Esq., 10. 

Wisner, Henry, 112. 

Wisner, Henry A., 112. 

Wood, Mary (Mrs. John Hussey), 
37. 

Wood, Mary (Mrs, Richard Mitchell, 
Sr.), 83. 

Woodbridge, Mrs. Mary A., (dau. 
Judge Brayton), 86. 

Worth, Judith (Mrs. John Macy, 
Jr.), 116. 

Worth, Justice of Peace, 30. 

Wyer, Mary (see Weare), 46. 

Wyer, Robert (see Weare), 46. 

Wyman, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel Bat- 
childer), 39. 

Yarnall, Benjamin H., 97. 
Yarnall, Caroline R. (Mrs. Edward 
• Yarnall, dau. Thomas Pirn Cope), 

97. 
Yarnall, Edward, 97. 
Yarnall, Eliza (Mrs. Benjamin H. 

Yarnall), 97. 



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